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| | guiStuff - Image File Formats |
 | | Unless that image makes up the page's figurehead, and/or it will be displayed repeatedly, as-is, throughout the entire site (so that you know it will be cached on the user end), images of this file size, of this resolution, aren't optimal for the web. |
 | | When you save a JPEG image file, it will always be a lossy procedure: that is to say, data will always be modified/lost in the process, and there will be no way to reverse that process, and retrieve that data, if you only have the JPEG image result to work with. |
 | | The TIFF image file format, for example, is designed to be extensible and allow various types of different image information to be stored in a single file, for example. |
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