While JPEG files are no doubt significantly more common online, the EPS format has definite advantages should you have any interest in doing some image editing. Thankfully, there are a number of resources online that allow you to easily convert your JPEG files into more edit friendly EPS versions. I will first outline the difference between the two file formats and then illustrate how to go about changing the former into the latter.
JPEG Files
JPEG files are one of the most common types of image files found on the internet due to the fact that they possess a very high rate of compression and as such make ideal additions to fast loading web pages. While JPEG files can look close to perfect even when viewed up close, they have two distinct disadvantages that prevent them from being the one stop shop for all online image needs.
The first disadvantage is that a JPEG cannot contain any text. You may disagree with this at first but the fact is that while you can write on a JPEG, what you write is not actually saved as text but simply as part of the image.
The second disadvantage, somewhat related to the first in fact, is that JPEG's are not very good when it comes to scaling. Should you attempt to increase the size of a JPEG, the result will often be far less professional looking than for example, an EPS file. The two biggest offenders are the "text" in JPEG's which frequently turns out blurred and circles which tend to lose their shape.
EPS Files
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