If you take a photo on your phone or a digital camera, or snap a quick screenshot on your computer, you might want to share that photo online or send it to a friend. But digital images are sometimes ...

You can resize a digital image file to fit a frame, send as an email attachment or insert it in a web page. Photo editing software allows you to reduce the pixel dimensions of your image. For example, ...

A new graphics file format, proposed by programmer Fabrice Bellard, could cut the file size of digital photos by half with far-reaching consequences. How are images made smaller? The vast majority of ...

Google Chrome Labs has released Squoosh, a web app that can compress and reformat images to make lighter web pages. The tool is aimed at helping web developers quickly compress images and reduce image ...

Google has developed and open-sourced a new JPEG algorithm that reduces file size by about 35 percent—or alternatively, image quality can be significantly improved while keeping file size constant.

When working with images, certain file formats may be better than others, depending on what your goals are. This infographic showcases the best uses for JPEG, GIF, and PNG file formats. The graphic ...