Tuesday, May 8, 2007

Micrisoft's HD Photo

Microsoft has unveiled a new file format called HD Photo, which offeres compression with up to twice the efficiency of JEPG, with fewer damaging artifacts, resulting in higher -quality images. A beta version of the Windows pulg-in is now available for download at the Microsoft Download Centre at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads. This is suitable for Photoshop.

Features

HD Photo offers increased image fidelity, preserving the entire original image content and enabling higher-quality exposure and color adjustments in the image.

I tried the HD format and found a picture which is compressed to 234 kb (jpeg fromat) from 1mb (Tiff) is reduced to 100 kb (wdp). This is maily for photos I believe. These plug-ins enable users to both read and write HD Photo fiels from within Photoshop and include support for high dynamic reange pixel formats. Contact your studios...ask them for details....try it out when you make digital prints..........Post your feed backs

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