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The objective of image compression is to reduce irrelevance and redundancy of the image data in order to be able to store or transmit data in an efficient
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I've been using a program called JPEGmini for a couple years, now, to compress my JPEG images. Its compression of JPEGs is lossy, but it claims to do so leaving the perceptual image quality virtually unchanged. Far as I can tell, its claims are pretty accurate, and it has literally helped me cut the size of some of my picture folders in half.
Please see the “condensed time line” section (the next one) for a time line of how the Xerox saga unfolded. It for example depicts that I did not push the thing to the public right away, but gave Xerox a lot of time before I did so.
Image compression works by reducing the amount of visible information. So whereas the original picture might be able to display 65 million colors, since the eye can not differentiate between anywhere near this number of colors the software is...
