Understanding File Formats

JPEG

JPEG is a method of “lossy compression” used for digital photography image files. “Lossy compression” is a fancy way of describing the process of reducing your file size, so you have smaller files for storage and sharing. It’s a type of encoding method that discards some repetitive data and interpolation of other information to represent some image content. You have the ability to set the degree of compression in your camera as well as when re-saving your image file.

The major trade-off for more compression and a smaller file size i...