It is an image format similar to your regular PNGs or JPEGs, but it supports both lossless and lossy image compression, making it significantly smaller in size than its predecessors.

Figure 2: Compression Lossy When an image is saved in a lossy format, that means that the file format compression technique discards some of the information from the image that it deems ...

We currently have more than 100 image formats in use. Depending on your use, a specific image format can come in handy. For instance, JPG image formats are helpful for image compression and let ...

The new image format is considered one of the lightest and most optimized image compression formats, and has already gained praise from companies such as Netflix, which considers it superior to ...

Image files can have different file formats like JPG, PNG, TIFF, GIF, BMP. This post compares them and discusses the differences, pros & cons.

Special Purpose Formats Although never used for image capture, the Portable Document File format developed by Adobe is also frequently used by digital photographers. Identified by the *.pdf extension, ...

JPEG is one of the most used image compression formats, but how JPEG compresses images and how computers process JPEG data is less well known than JPEG. Angealbertini, who is involved in security ...

This format uses lossless compression, so you don’t lose any image detail. As a result, it produces higher-quality images than JPEG format, but the file sizes are bigger.

JPEG files are well known for having ugly compression artifacts, particularly when an image has been compressed multiple times.

Squoosh helps websites cut image file sizes and helps Google promote its WebP image-compression format.