JPEG
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{{FormatInfo|extensions=.jpg,.jpeg,.jpe}[[Category:File formats with extension .jpe}]]
JPEG, named after the Joint Photographic Experts Group, which created the format, is a lossy compressed format well-suited to photographic images. Line drawings do better with non-lossy compressed bitmaps such as GIF and PNG.
References
- [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG JPEG (Wikipedia)
- JPEG standard
