It is an image format similar to your regular PNGs or JPEGs, but it supports both lossless and lossy image compression, making it significantly smaller in size than its predecessors.

Better Portable Graphics (BPG) provides a modern lossy image format that outperforms the aging JPEG file format, providing more visually clear images with smaller file sizes.

Figure 2: Compression Lossy When an image is saved in a lossy format, that means that the file format compression technique discards some of the information from the image that it deems ...

We currently have more than 100 image formats in use. Depending on your use, a specific image format can come in handy. For instance, JPG image formats are helpful for image compression and let ...

The new image format is considered one of the lightest and most optimized image compression formats, and has already gained praise from companies such as Netflix, which considers it superior to ...

Special Purpose Formats Although never used for image capture, the Portable Document File format developed by Adobe is also frequently used by digital photographers. Identified by the *.pdf extension, ...

Image files can have different file formats like JPG, PNG, TIFF, GIF, BMP. This post compares them and discusses the differences, pros & cons.

Bitmap files (as BMPs were often referred to) use no compression, making file sizes impractical when similar output can be obtained using other more modern formats like PNG.

This image format provides superior lossless and lossy compression that generates images which are 26 to 34% smaller than JPG images making it by far the best format for web development.

Squoosh helps websites cut image file sizes and helps Google promote its WebP image-compression format.