Web designers are always used to putting images on to web pages. But how do they decide as to which format the image must be in? Basically there are three major types of image formats that are supported by all the web browsers. By first compressing data and then decompressing of retrieved data we can find that it is different from the original, but just enough to be useful in some way. It is recommended not to use the JPEG format when we have an image with clear edges as these might look blurry when compress it.

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