The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) recently released an update to the Portable Network Graphics (PNG) image format, one of the most popular image formats for web content. Tom’s Hardware writes that ...

These spectral files can contain 30, 100, or more data points per pixel, causing file sizes to balloon into multi-gigabyte territory—making them unwieldy to store and analyze.

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which manages web standards and guidelines, recently published new specifications for the PNG (Portable Network Graphics) image format. The updated ...

PNG format gets an update to support HDR images while only adding a small amount of data. Major internet browser companies, including Chrome and Firefox, already support HDR-based PNGs. Future updates ...

The file command can identify image file types by extracting data from the files themselves. $ file Emmy.jpg Emmy.jpg: JPEG image data, progressive, precision 8, 704x584, components 3 ...

Most of your digital photos are stored in the JPEG format (a.k.a. JPG), but when you download an image from the web these days, it may be using the more modern WebP format. It's likely you're also ...

HEIC is the file format name Apple has chosen for the new HEIF standard. HEIF stands for High Efficiency Image Format, and, as the name suggests, is a more streamlined way of storing image files.

TIFF stands for tagged image file format and it’s long been the gold standard for printing high-quality images. ... While there are many more formats, these are the most common.

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 ...