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Image Fundamentals

Lossy vs Lossless: How Image Compression Actually Works

Why does a photo shrink beautifully as a JPEG while a logo turns to mush? Walk through what an encoder really does — colour transforms, frequency analysis, quantisation, entropy coding — and why that predicts which of your images will compress well.

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