Copyright 1998, Southern California OS/2 User Group
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Compression defined
- compression method tied to image storage format
- different methods alter images in different ways
- file extensions identify image storage format
- LZ or LZW - Lempel-Ziv or Lempel-Ziv-Welch
- used by GIF and TIF
- LZW proprietary to Unisys
- lossy
- RLE - Run-length encoding
- lossless (very big files)
- TGA (Targa)
- proprietary to TrueVision
- lossless (gigantic files)
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