compression

Compression
Lossy
Lossless
differences
 Compression means to reduce
the size of a data file for
example a document,
spreadsheet, image, sound file
etc
Compression

This can result in significant

saving. Compressed files
require significantly less
storage capacity than
uncompressed files, meaning
a significant decrease in
expenses for storage.
 Advantages + disadvantages

• reductions in • User can not get back

storage hardware original image
• data transmission after compression.
time • Not suitable to
• communication compress files of
bandwidth. larger sizes.
 Lossless compression
Lossless compression
basically rewrites the
reduces a file's size
data of the original file
with no loss of quality.
in a more efficient way.
Lossless
compression
RAW, BMP, GIF,
and PNG are all
lossless image formats.
 Lossy compression is a method of
data compression in which the size of In doing so, image quality is sacrificed to
the file is reduced by eliminating data in decrease file size.
the file.

Lossy
compression

lossy compression is typically associated

Lossy compression is most
with image files, such as JPEGs, but can
commonly used to compress multimedia
also be used for audio files, like MP3s or
data (audio, video, and images).
AAC files.