Benefits

• Less storage used
• faster transfer speeds

Lossless Compression

• Compressed as much as possible without losing any data

Run-length Encoding (RLE)

• Lossless compression
• RLE compression was a popular technique when most computer images were icons with limited color palates
• Fax machines use RLE
• JPEG images use RLE as a first step

Lossy Compression

• Compresses the data even more then Lossless compression but some data is lost