Speaking for the newbies (or that segment of them who aren't asking you to
do their homework/job/googling for them):
The trouble is, we don't know whether we can't find information(X)
because:
"X" is not the term "knowbies" use for the concept,
or because:
information(X) is rare due to the
I have a monster jpg (128 mb) that comprises a handful of colors
(20 or so, max). It should never have been compressed with jpeg
compression, as I understand it. It should have been a png or gif, since
they are made to handle blocks of a few colors.
I used PIL to convert it to png and to gi