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JPEG is a common lossy compression method for digital images. Use this tag for questions about JPEG images using the image/jpeg MIME type.

JPEG is a common lossy compression method for digital images. Use this tag for questions about JPEG images using the image/jpeg MIME type.

See also , , and for other image file formats with JPEG in the name.

More information at the JPEG Wikipedia page.

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What are the different usecases of PNG vs. GIF vs. JPEG vs. SVG?

When should certain image file types be used when building websites or interfaces, etc? What are their points of strength and weakness? I know that PNG & GIF are lossless, while JPEG is lossy. But what is the main difference between PNG & GIF? Why…
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Python Image Library fails with message "decoder JPEG not available" - PIL

PIL does support JPEG in my system. Whenever I do an upload, my code is failing with: File "PIL/Image.py", line 375, in _getdecoder raise IOError("decoder %s not available" % decoder_name) IOError: decoder jpeg not available How can I resolve…
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JPG vs. JPEG image formats

I often use JPEG images, and I have noticed that there are two very similar file extensions: .jpg, which my mobile's camera and the Preview application use, and .jpeg, with which Image Capture saves the images from scanning with my Canon MX455…
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Changing all files' extensions in a folder with one command on Windows

How can I use the Windows command line to change the extensions of thousands of files to *****.jpg?
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How to remove EXIF data without recompressing the JPEG?

I want to remove the EXIF information (including thumbnail, metadata, camera info... everything!) from JPEG files, but I don't want to recompress it, as recompressing the JPEG will degrade the quality, as well as usually increasing the file…
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Convert RGBA PNG to RGB with PIL

I'm using PIL to convert a transparent PNG image uploaded with Django to a JPG file. The output looks broken. Source file Code Image.open(object.logo.path).save('/tmp/output.jpg',…
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Accessing JPEG EXIF rotation data in JavaScript on the client side

I'd like to rotate photos based on their original rotation, as set by the camera in JPEG EXIF image data. The trick is that all this should happen in the browser, using JavaScript and . How could JavaScript access JPEG, a local file API…
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Does PNG contain EXIF data like JPG?

I was wondering if PNG contains data like the following? What I did was to convert the jpg file to png format, and I was expecting to retrieve the same info I had on the jpg as below: Currently using this as3 library to read the data. IDF0--- IDF…
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Convert SVG image to PNG with PHP

I'm working on a web project that involves a dynamically generated map of the US coloring different states based on a set of data. This SVG file gives me a good blank map of the US and is very easy to change the color of each state. The…
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Tools for JPEG optimization?

Do you know of any tools (preferrably command-line) to automatically and losslessly optimize JPEGs that I could integrate into our build environment? For PNGs I'm currently using PNGOUT, and it generally saves around 40% bandwidth/image size. At the…
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Why am I getting the error: "Not a JPEG file: starts with 0x89 0x50"

Why am I getting the message "Not a JPEG file: starts with 0x89 0x50" when I try to open my jpg file?
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When to use PNG or JPG in iPhone development?

I have an app that will display a bunch of images in a slideshow. Those images will be part of the bundle, thus distributed with the app. All the images are photographs or photographic, etc. I've read that it's preferred to use PNG as the image…
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Is JPEG lossless when quality is set to 100?

I understand that JPEG is a lossy compression standard, and that the 'quality' factor controls the degree of compression and thus the amount of data loss. But when the quality number is set to 100, is the resulting jpeg lossless?
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Is it possible to tell the quality level of a JPEG?

This is really a two part question, since I don't fully understand how these things work just yet: My situation: I'm writing a web app which lets the user upload an image. My app then resizes to something displayable (eg: 640x480-ish) and saves the…
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When to interlace an image?

As a general rule of thumb when is it appropriate to make a gif interlaced, a png interlaced and a jpeg progressive? Especially when publishing the image on the web.
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