Image Compression

In a True Color image you need 3 bits for every pixel.

8000000 * 3 = 24 MB

We need compression in order to lower the space required by an image.

How compression works??

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Lossless vs. Lossy

Lossy Compression

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File Formats

Uncompressed

Lossy

Lossless

BMP

Jpeg

PNG