Computer Science for IGCSE & O level - Data Representation (Section 15 - No. 24)
If an image is compressed using a lossy compression algorithm, what will happen?
The file size will be reduced.
Some of the original data will be lost.
The image quality may be reduced.
The image will become larger.
Paliwanag
With lossy compression, data is discarded, reducing the size but potentially affecting quality.