Most of the images you view online are JPEGs, an image format that’s now over twenty years old. It has proven immensely popular because of its wide range of compression and ability to deliver ...

Last week, Swiss software engineer Matthias Bühlmann discovered that the popular image synthesis model Stable Diffusion could compress existing bitmapped images with fewer visual artifacts than JPEG ...

Whether you’re running a website or using social media, images are crucial. They provide a visual representation of your brand and its offerings, catching the eye of prospective customers. However, if ...

Everyone is obsessed with text-to-image artificial intelligence now, those seemingly magical prompts that turn your thoughts into images with one sentence and a mouse click. Surprisingly, however, you ...

The Guetzli project shows there's room to improve the venerable compression tech. Too bad Google's software is slow and not so practical for most sites right now. Google says its Guetzli compression ...

Would you say the above photograph has any compression artifacts? Compressed too much, not enough, or just right? What exactly is “just right” anyway. This post will explore the concept of compression ...

One feature of the new Reduce Noise filter is the option to smooth out the box-like appearance of JPEG artifacts. One of the side effects of saving space by compressing files using the JPEG format is ...

Google has a new, experimental web app for you to try: Squoosh. It uses the latest in image compression technology to cram your pictures into smaller file sizes with a minimal loss of quality, but ...