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What Does Lossless Mean?

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Akshay Kalbag Profile
Akshay Kalbag answered
The word lossless is used to denote a form of compression that does not degrade the quality of the image being compressed. The method of lossless compression is defined as a method of compression (of an image) in which the size of the image is reduced, but none of the information which is present in the original image in the lost in process.

The decompressed image is exactly the same as the original image. The lossless compression scheme, in other words, retains all the information of the original image. However, the only drawback of the image which has been decompressed is usually not as efficient as the original image due to the restricts involved in retaining all the data as it was in the original image.

In other words, the lossless method is a method of decompression in which no data is discarded. The image is stored in a non-compressed format, such as the TIFF format.
Sphinx Talli Nillo Profile

Image compression works by reducing the amount of visible
information. So whereas the original picture might be able to display 65
million colors, since the eye can not differentiate between anywhere near this
number of colors the software is going through and removing colors that are not
needed. The actual complexity of the algorithms is far more complex than that,
and beyond the scope of this response. But the threshold (assuming I understand
your context correctly) has to do with how the algorithm decides what
information to throw away and what information to keep, and thus will affect
the resulting quality and size of the image after compressions.


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