Tom from CA asks: When saving a picture, Windows always calls it
a bitmap. How can I change it so it saves as a jpeg? The real
question here isn’t how your computer is SAVING the picture,
rather in what format the picture was UPLOADED. Many times,
website creators will use .bmp rather than .jpg or .jpeg, simply
because the quality of the picture is higher. A bitmap (.bmp) is
an uncompressed photo, whereas a jpeg is a compressed format,
which means some quality sacrifice. It may not be obvious to the
naked eye, but it IS there. Your best bet is to save a picture
like this in its original format and then use a photo editing
program to save it in whatever your preferred format is. I like
jpeg because, although it takes up less space than .bmp, it is
still a good quality image. Here’s a .bmp of a mandrill that I
found through Google images. My options for saving this are .bmp
or “all files”. The latter isn’t recommended, because you are
not specifically defining an extension. Once you’ve saved the
image, open it