JPEG Last modified: Monday, May 05, 2003
Short for Joint Photographic Experts Group, and pronounced jay-peg. JPEG is a lossy compression technique for color images. Although it can reduce files sizes to about 5% of their normal size, some detail is lost in the compression. Also see JPG vs. GIF vs. PNG in the Did You Know . . . ? section of Webopedia.
JPEG and GIF compression basics  Describes compression basics for GIF and JPEG Web images, along with related links and examples. JPEG examples Provides a brief explanation on the use of JPEG formats, along with several examples of JPEG images at different quality levels. The Graphics File Formats Page Deep technical specifications of the most popular graphic formats. Yahoo!'s JPEG page Yahoo!'s directory of JPEG. JPEG FAQ Provides links to a two part FAQ on JPEG image compression. Lossless JPEG compression FAQ This page, from a JPEG image compression FAQ, provides information on lossless compression and JPEG.

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