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Saving a flat photograph to JPEG

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Saving a flat photograph to JPEG

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- [Instructor] Next, we'll look at the JPEG format, which is ideally suited to archiving continuous-tone images such as photographs. And so by continuous tone, I mean that we have relatively gentle transitions between neighboring pixels as opposed to very abrupt transitions such as in the case of this Pegasus. Now, JPEG is spelled J-P-E-G, after the Joint Photographic Experts Group, and it was first developed back in 1992, before Photoshop introduced layers. And it's pretty much died on the vine since then. It's very popular don't get me wrong, but it really hasn't seen any development, so not surprisingly, it doesn't support layers. It does support full-color images, it does not support transparency and it always applies some degree of lossy compression. Meaning that it rewrites the pixels. But it also makes the images much smaller. So, if you drop down to this option right here and click on it, and switch to Document…

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