1.2.5 Compression

• Compression

  The process of reducing the size of a file in terms of its storage size
• Lossy compression


  A compression scheme where their generally involves a loss of resolution in parts of the image where experiences shows that it will be least noticed
• Lossless compression

  A compression scheme that allows the original images to be recreated
• Compression software

  Reduces file size so they take up less space on hard disk