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Portable and not so portable metafiles

Metafile is the means of storing graphics data. Its complex structure is made of a series of records, where each record represents a certain function of graphics design interface. There are several image formats that contain the term “metafile” in their names. The most common format is Windows Metafiles, while Aldus Placeable Metafiles File format […]

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How to activate ImageConverter Plus on the computer that is not connected to the Internet

Most of the time when downloading ImageConverter Plus from our website, activation is pretty easy and does not cause any issues. Still, it gets more complicated when your computer is not connected to the Internet. The good news is that activation is still possible; the bad news is that you still need to have access

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TIFF format compression types

TIFF image format is known for superb image quality, but large file size. Highly flexible, platform independent, this bitmap format is widely used. TIFF supports a wide range of compression types: The lossless algorithms that can be used are: • PackBits • LZW (Lempel-Ziv-Welch), popular for grayscale or color images • CCITT Fax group 3

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We know what you did last night!

Looking at someone who is busy doing something for you while you rest, is probably the dream everyone dreams once in a while. Supervising things instead of really doing something seems much more pleasant, that’s why practically everyone would like to become a boss one day. Tedious jobs and repeated tasks all cause frustration and

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Shoot without noise

Taking a photo with a good camera one can assume that high quality photo will be produced by default. Still, there may be quite a few disappointments when there is digital noise, or some other drawbacks in the image. Digital noise is a bunch of specks in the photo that do not exist in reality.

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Customize a promotional t-shirt

When someone is wearing a t-shirt with an image and/or a text on it, we barely wonder where the image comes from. What we pay attention to is the image itself. Indeed, images on t-shirts can be considered powerful advertising tools. Whatever you want the viewer to pay attention to – your company name, your

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The oldest “tablet” known

No one is surprised nowadays when seeing lots of people using tablets. But do you know that the first tablet was introduced into the market in the 1990s and was called PalmPilot. The PalmPilot elegantly tracked contacts, notes, to-dos and events, all synchronized to your desktop computer. It was a general-purpose computer used for specialized

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Unique names or common names?

Working with images would be much simpler, if instead of converting images fr om one format to another, one could simply change the file extension, i.e. .till to .jpg. But it’s impossible to do it this way and requires the image converter. Some image formats may have several file extensions that mean exactly the same

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Structure of TIFF images in brief

Among the wide variety of image formats supported by ImageConverter Plus, TIFF probably offers more options for input conversion. When choosing TIFF as an output format, there are several different suggestions offered by our software, i.e. color depth, compression type, byte order, single or multistrip, etc. Although some of them are more likely to be

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If 8-bit is not enough…

Although there are more and more people who are aware of different photography aspects, the term “bit depth” is unclear to a lot of them. One can assume that this is something related to image quality, but no one can really explain what it really means. A bit is a small unit of data. 1

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Resource for documentary archive

The PDF image format is widely used for preservation of different types of documents. Its most valuable feature is the ability to be viewed on many different applications. No matter what platform you use – Windows, Mac, or any other one – the PDF file will look exactly the same. Another useful feature of PDF

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Improving your photo composition

Image composition describes how the elements in your photo are arranged inside the image frame. Each of us taking photos wants to create a professional image that will be admired everyone around. A successful shot attracts the eye for a while. Visual elements that a photographer uses in the composition are for example lines, forms,

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