Labels:book | crt screen | hakham | microwave | monitor | reckoner | sky | window | windowpane OCR: DIGITAL MEDIA 4 3 9 IMAGE COMPRESSION What is image compression? Image compression refers to any technique that recodes the data in an image file so that contains fewer bits. Smaller files produced as a result Q image compression require less storage space and can be transmitted more rapidly than the larger, original files Images can be compressed using lossless or lossy compression. What the difference between lossless and lossy compres- sion? Lossless compression provides the means to compress file and then reconstitute all the data into its original state TIFF, PCX, and GIF graphics formats offer lossless compression. In contrast, lossy compres- sion throws away some of the original data during the compression process. In theory the human eye won't miss the lost information. JPEG files ...
