Multimedia/Graphics/Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPG)



As indicated by their name, this file format is best suited to photos with lots of colour combinations. All pictures are stored in a 16 million colour format with selectable compression. No transparency is possible.


 * Recommended for photographs
 * A "standard" format for bitmap files.
 * All pictures stored in a 16 million colour format with selectable compression possible.
 * Lower colour pictures have colours increased when saving in JPG format.
 * No transparency possible.
 * Unfortunately successive editing will result in a steady degradation of the image due to the ’lossy’ compression technique.

Examples of how compression affects the image: