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. In the image to the right, is an example of a JPEG image
and CAPTCHA.
Also see: BMP, GIF, Graphic, Lossy, Progressive JPEG, PNG, Raster