French programmer Fabrice Bellard has come up with a graphics file format he believes can "replace the JPEG image format." Bellard’s BPG (Better Portable Graphics) format boasts a compelling quality ...

You've probably been using JPEG, PNG, and GIF image formats for as long as you can remember. These formats have remained virtually unchanged for the last 30 years, but are still found everywhere. With ...

JPEG XL is an emerging image file format designed to increase image fidelity while decreasing file size when compared to other popular image formats, particularly the old JPEG format. At present, both ...

JPEG XL is a new-generation image file format that recently got a big boost to awareness thanks to native support in the iPhone 16 series smartphones. So what is it, why does it matter, and why should ...

High-Efficiency Image Container (HEIC) and Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG) file formats each have their benefits and drawbacks when you think about which is best to use when saving photos on ...

IntroductionIn recent years, with the increase in storage capacity and the spread of broadband, I feel that fewer people are ...

At the turn of the century, the Joint Photographic Experts Group created what they considered to be the next generation of JPEG image compression. Suitably named JPEG 2000, the standard promised ...

Somewhere in your camera's menu system, buried three levels deep in a file settings submenu you've probably never explored, there's an option to change your default image format from JPEG to HEIF.

Korbin is a Linux system administrator who spends most of his time in a terminal figuring out how things actually work. Over the last decade he's written hundreds of articles about Linux configuration ...