Background Information
What is JPEG?
JPEG (pronounced jay-peg), which stands for Joint Photographic Experts Group, is the name of a family of standards used for coding photographs and graphic images with millions of colors (up to 16 million) in a digital compressed format.
The major advantage of JPEG is that JPEG is a compression technique for color images that can reduce files sizes to about 5% of their normal size. Some detail is lost in the compression by eliminating very subtle color distinctions that the human eye usually cannot detect.