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Saturday, February 11, 2006

JPEG

.. short for Joint Photographic Experts Group, is a lossy image compression technique that reduces files sizes by discarding photo information that the human eye cannot detect. JPG images are best suited for photgraphs. It does not work well on line drawings or simple graphics because there is not a lot of the image that can be thrown out in the lossy process - the image therefore loses clarity and sharpness.