Pegasus Imaging Announces the JPEG Wizard Web Site: www.jpegwizard.com.TAMPA, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 17, 1998--Pegasus Imaging today announced that it has unveiled its JPEG JPEG in full Joint Photographic Experts Group Standard computer file format for storing graphic images in a compressed form for general use. JPEG images are compressed using a mathematical algorithm. optimization web site. Graphic designers, web masters, and multimedia developers can now submit their JPEG images to be optimized by the Pegasus JPEG Wizard. Pegasus Imaging, a long-time provider of high-performance JPEG products, has created the JPEG Wizard web site as a means for web designers to interactively recompress their JPEG images. After performing a survey of many JPEG images on the Web, Pegasus determined that a large number of web sites contained JPEG images that were under-compressed, sometimes by as much as 300%. This is a common cause of unnecessarily long download times and frustration for web surfers. Pegasus Imaging created the JPEG Wizard web site to give web designers a way of recompressing and optimizing their JPEG images to minimize download times. "It is really surprising how many expert web designers have not tapped the full potential of JPEG images", said Jack Berlin, president of Pegasus Imaging. "Many graphic designers make the mistake of using only Photoshop to create their JPEG images and many others make the mistake of equating JPEG to GIF GIF in full Graphics Interchange Format Standard computer file format for graphic images. GIF files use data compression to reduce the file size. The original version of the format was developed by CompuServe in 1987. . Photoshop does not do a good job with JPEG compression and JPEG has many more parameters than GIF. The JPEG Wizard web site is an excellent way for Web designers to streamline the images on their own site." The JPEG Wizard web site gives users the ability to interactively change JPEG parameters and observe the effects on download time and image quality. Each JPEG image submitted to the web site is recompressed with low, medium, and high compression, each of which is adjustable. Viewers also have the ability to losslessly rotate an image, to add comments, and to create either a standard baseline or a progressive JPEG A JPEG image that comes into focus while it is being displayed. Instead of rendering the image a line at a time from top to bottom, the whole image is displayed as very low-quality and fuzzy, which becomes sharper as the lines fill in. image. For content creators See content provider. who need industrial strength solutions on their desktop, Pegasus offers several solutions for image compression Noun 1. image compression - the compression of graphics for storage or transmission compression - encoding information while reducing the bandwidth or bits required . PICPress is a general-purpose image editor and image compressor compressor, machine that decreases the volume of air or other gas by the application of pressure. Compressor types range from the simple hand pump and the piston-equipped compressor used to inflate tires to machines that use a rotating, bladed element to achieve which uses the same optimization technology as the JPEG Wizard web site. PICPress for Photoshop is a plug-in that gives Photoshop users access to optimized JPEG technology. RapidVUE is an optimized viewer and JPEG recompresser for Web browsers The following is a list of web browsers. Historical Historically important browsers In order of release:
CONTACT: Pegasus Imaging Corporation Andrew Hudson Andrew Charles Hudson (b. 17 March, 1965) in Eshowe, Natal was a South African Test and ODI cricketer. The right handed batsman played 35 Tests and 89 one-day internationals for South Africa in the 1990's. , 813/875-7575 ahudson@jpg.com www.jpegwizard.com |
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