The missing E in JPG is a DOS-era hangover you’ve been typing for decades.

In digital imaging, two image formats prevail above all else: JPEG (or JPG) and PNG. At first glance, a single image shown in both formats might seem identical, but if you look closely enough and dig ...

Photographer Jamie Gillies recently went down the deep, dark rabbit hole known as “JPEG quality.” Now that he’s emerged on the other side, he’s sharing the knowledge that h’se gained so that you too ...

High-Efficiency Image Container (HEIC) and Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG) file formats each have their benefits and drawbacks when you think about which is best to use when saving photos on ...

JPEG images that are acceptable for your business website may have unwanted noise and loss of clarity when they are used for print publications or Powerpoint slide shows. This is due to compressing ...

French programmer Fabrice Bellard has come up with a graphics file format he believes can "replace the JPEG image format." Bellard’s BPG (Better Portable Graphics) format boasts a compelling quality ...

Google is obsessed with speeding up the Web, and the company hopes sprucing up its image format will help. It's got a lot of convincing to do, though. The new version of Google’s WebP encoder can ...

While looking into the new compression service JPEGmini yesterday, the following statement caught my eye in an interview they did with Megapixel: […] sometimes you increase the quality setting in ...

The casual snapshots friends take with their smartphones that scroll through your SNS timeline, or selfies taken slightly ...