Microsoft’s new HD photo format has taken its first step toward becoming the new JPEG standard. The JPEG Standards Group has agreed to consider it as a standard.
As I said on a previous post about a Microsoft product earlier today, love ‘em or hate ‘em, they’ve sure had a couple of neat things coming out lately.
The HD photo format has lossless compression (doesn’t lose data, unlike other formats), supports CMYK, RGP, monochrome, and embedded ICC profiles, and it is designed so specific parts of the compressed data can be modified (only certain parts need to be decoded). It requires much less CPU power to decode than other formats likes JPEG2000 (which, if you remember, was supposed to be the holy grail of formats).
Please subscribe, or else I will cry. Do you really want to make a programmer cry?
Leave a Reply