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compressing pictures so that they don't take up as much disk space

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jpeg is a type of file and is mostly used for storing images.

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A .jpg or .jpeg file format is used when saving images. It is the default save format when downloading an image from the internet. Other common file formats are: .PNG or .Tiff.

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JPEG is a type of file which is normally used for storing images.

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