1. A method for decompressing an image, the image including one or more regions, the method comprising: selecting a region of the one or more regions in the image to decode, wherein each region is compressed independently when a predetermined compression acceptability criteria is reached and downscaled during encoding; decoding the selected region using metadata associated with the selected region, wherein the metadata includes transformation and quantization settings and information describing an aspect ratio used to compress the region; applying a reconstruction transformation to the selected region using the transformation and quantization settings and performing an upscaling operation on the selected region using the aspect ratio; and applying the reconstruction transformation to each of the one or more regions in the image and performing the upscaling operation to each of the one or more regions in the image prior to displaying the image.