Processing and Optimizing images

Reducing the volume of images is a difficult issue. Images are coded in formats that use all types of compression technique. GIF, PNG and JPEG formats use LZW, LZ77 (or "ZLIB") and Huffman compressions, respectively.

In reality, there is only one way to compress an image: by reducing the volume of information it contains. The resulting compression is irreversible and is accompanied by a slight deterioration in quality.

BoostEdge BoostEdge can process the following image formats:

• GIF
• JPEG
• PNG
• TIFF

For GIF images, the lowest reduction level involves deleting unused entries from the palette.