JPEG is a lossy compression format conceived explicitly for making photo files smaller and it exploits the imperfect characteristics of our perception. JPEG files are more correctly described as being ...

Compressing a JPEG image size a 20 KB photo size in pixels is not difficult. Retaining high level quality and visibility is not always possible but the smaller photo size can send through multiple ...

Need to send someone a big batch of files? Don’t attach one after another after another to your e-mail. Instead, compress the files into one smaller, easier-to-manage file. In other words, “Zip” them.

Last week, Swiss software engineer Matthias Bühlmann discovered that the popular image synthesis model Stable Diffusion could compress existing bitmapped images with fewer visual artifacts than JPEG ...