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Describe what it means to say that JPEG is a lossy compression technique and whether or not it affects the quality of camera pictures.

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JPEG is a lossy compression because as it is compressed, some of the pixels are lost during the process. When the file is uncompressed, you can no longer get those pixels back. This affects the final image because those pixels can never be gotten back, and the image has now lost some pixels.

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