AVIF (AV1 Image File, derived from the AV1 video codec) files are relatively new compared to more well-known types such as GIFs, JPEGs, or PNGs, but support for them has been steadily growing. Many of ...

While much of the technology behind digital cameras has changed since the first prototypes, one feature that’s nearly as old ...

If you’ve tried to save an image off the web recently, there’s a chance it’s appeared in a strange new format. The AVIF format is growing in popularity online—and there’s every chance that it could ...

You may have noticed an online image format appearing in your browser lately, especially if you have a blog or like to save images you find online. It’s called WebP ...

Graphics Interchange Format, popularly known as GIF is a digital file format. A GIF means multiple images encoded in a single file and displayed in a succession to create an animation. It can also be ...

At some point in everyone’s photographic journey, most people will ask: what is a RAW file? In my early days as a novice photographer I was easily frustrated by common mistakes, like the wrong white ...

The PNG format is particularly useful when it comes to the lossless storage of images with transparent backgrounds. Whether you want to convert a JPG to PNG, make a PNG transparent, or simply create a ...

In this post, we will discuss what is an ARW file and how to view it on Windows 11/10 PC. ARW stands for Sony Alpha Raw and is a RAW image file format. This file format is specially used by Sony ...

Using unprocessed raw camera files takes more work than shooting JPGs, but it also gives you better images and far more control in the editing stage. I've been testing PC and mobile software for more ...

There's a lot to learn about image files on the command line, from verifying file format to finding out where and when photos were taken and maybe even getting an unusual view of what they look like.

I got to wondering today, if there was any image format, maybe binary black/white, or greyscale, or even color, that is just raw pixels, with no metadata. Even BMP, while it has pretty minimal ...

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