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Although JPEG images are bitmaps -- images built of many individual pixels -- and vector images in formats such as EPS are built of lines, curves, and other geometric shapes, you can use a simple ...

The main advantage of this format is that it offers high-quality images at nearly half the file size of JPEGs. However, the downside is that not all platforms and devices support this format, which is ...

When you use a digital camera, you may have the option to save the photo you’ve taken as a raw+JPEG file. This is a quasi-standardized file format that bundles a JPEG with the unmodified sensor ...