If you take a photo on your phone or a digital camera, or snap a quick screenshot on your computer, you might want to share that photo online or send it to a friend. But digital images are sometimes ...

A new graphics file format, proposed by programmer Fabrice Bellard, could cut the file size of digital photos by half with far-reaching consequences. How are images made smaller? The vast majority of ...

Google has developed and open-sourced a new JPEG algorithm that reduces file size by about 35 percent—or alternatively, image quality can be significantly improved while keeping file size constant.