Digital cameras -- especially high-end digital SLR cameras -- often take images at a high resolution; an 8-megapixel camera set on the highest resolution will create images that are 3072 pixels wide ...

A new image format is set to revolutionize the way we store and view photos.

JPEG is a highly compatible image format, but it's also bad for efficiency. It's better to go with smaller file sizes now and convert later.

Last week, Swiss software engineer Matthias Bühlmann discovered that the popular image synthesis model Stable Diffusion could compress existing bitmapped images with fewer visual artifacts than JPEG ...

I recently had need to reduce the size of a large number of JPG images. I did not want to do this one at a time in a graphics manipulation tool, so scripting seemed like the obvious choice. These days ...

The Guetzli project shows there's room to improve the venerable compression tech. Too bad Google's software is slow and not so practical for most sites right now. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from ...

Google has released Chrome 145 with official JPEG-XL image format support on February 11, 2026. The update signals renewed ...

Small is beautiful, as the old saying goes, and nowhere is that more true than in media files. Compressed images are considerably easier to transmit and store than uncompressed ones are, and now ...

TinyPNG is probably the most useful and easy-to-use online image size reducer that can compress up to 20 images at a time. However, the maximum file size is 5 MB. Talking about the image format, you ...

In 2012, the photograph of Barack and Michelle Obama embracing after his re-election was 'liked' over 4 million times. That photo, like the 250 million other images uploaded to Facebook every day is ...