losslessly
Adverb
Meaning
losslessly (comparative more losslessly, superlative most losslessly)
In a lossless manner.
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Examples
Alpha storage can be "associated" (" premultiplied ") or "unassociated", but PNG standardized citation on "unassociated" ("non-premultiplied") alpha so that images with separate transparency masks can be stored losslessly.
An image can be stored losslessly and converted to JPEG format only for distribution, so that there is no generation loss.
If data which has been compressed lossily is decoded and compressed losslessly, the size of the result can be comparable with the size of the data before lossy compression, but the data already lost cannot be recovered.
Furthermore, several JPEG images can be losslessly joined together, as long as they were saved with the same quality and the edges coincide with block boundaries.
Images should always be optimized, especially if you can do so losslessly!
This means CD-quality music should be transferred losslessly without bother, but high-res files will fall a little short of their original glory.