JPEG
Short for Joint Photographic Experts Group, JPEG is a color-image graphics compression format. The JPEG standard uses a lossy sacrificed to achieve greater compression. JPEG is also abbreviated as
JPG in the file extension used with IBM compatible computers. The image to the right, is an example of a JPEG image
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Also see: BMP, GIF, Graphic, Lossy, Progressive JPEG, PNG, Raster