The missing E in JPG is a DOS-era hangover you’ve been typing for decades.

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 ...

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 ...

Play sound into a liquid in a shallow container and capture the ripples on the surface with a camera. The new Apple Music ...

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 ...

We all have been there at some point in our photographic journeys: Our cameras, set to AUTO, pointing and clicking, saving JPEG images that we perhaps edit a little and put in an album to archive.

The Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG), an international committee headed by an EPFL professor, has just unveiled JPEG XS. With this new format, the image-compression process uses less energy, ...

Chances are good that you’ve witnessed a wide variety of file formats flit across your screen, but do you really understand what they mean? For example, you may understand that a JPEG is for pictures ...

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 ...