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Beautiful snow formations, snow tapped mountains and trees, wildlife, ice crystals, white landscapes and blizzards are just a few of the subjects we can photograph during the winter months. Winter landscapes make great subjects, but sometimes when the camera settings are not right the pictures will come out dull and lifeless. To avoid drab, gray […]

The most important aspect of an image acquisition system is how images are represented. Pixel is the smallest addressable element, the smallest unit of a picture which can be controlled. Pixel is a set of color channels that represents the color at a given point in an image. Each channel represents the value of a

ImageConverter Plus provides a free demo version so that our customers could have the ability to try our product before they make a purchase. Our demo version is fully enabled, but embeds a watermark on each converted image file. There is only one feature disabled in the demo version – the source files will never

High dynamic range images contain much more lighting information than standard images. HDR images accurately depict an extreme range of luminosity from the brightest direct sunlight to the deepest darkest shadows. They will show more details than what a human eye would capture. They will be almost fantastical – more stars in the sky, or

One of the options at using ImageConverter Plus is creating log file in the target folder. It means that each time you perform an image conversion, or resize your images, a special text file will be added to the target folder. Log files contain ongoing activities of ImageConverter Plus. Every single step of the conversion

When you need to perform a certain task with some software, time efficiency, reliability and simplicity in usage are crucial. Developing our products fCoder Group, Inc. strives not only to make highly reliable image processing software, but also the one that saves time. Starting with version 8.0. we have introduced several aspects that aim at

LZW compression is the foremost technique for general purpose lossless data compression due to its simplicity and versatility. LZW compression should be used when you want to reduce the size of your images with good performance and low memory overhead. Typically you can expect LZW to compress data files to about one-half their original size.

Are you getting the most of your digital photos? If you are not using your camera’s RAW format , you are missing a whole world of picture quality. Most professional photographers are enthusiastic about capturing RAW images, because all of the image data recorded by a camera’s sensor is available. RAW files contain much more

If your picture contains large areas of light tones near a white border, sometimes you can’t tell where the image ends and the border begins. This may be very annoying especially if you need to cut them manually later. Black borders added to your images maybe quite helpful in this situation. Adding borders to your

There are many different reasons for and ways of encoding data, and one of these ways is Huffman coding. The idea behind Huffman coding is simply to use shorter bit patterns for more common characters, and longer bit patterns for less common characters. The Huffman optimization is a lossless process that has absolutely no effect

Family photos, vacation snapshots or creative artistic works: whatever images you have to share, you can present them in a variety of ways. It can be a nice idea to share them in the form of a photo gallery on the web. Whether a professional or an amateur, we all realize that publishing images in

You’ve probably noticed that HDR photos are all around the web, as photographers like to experiment with their artistic abilities. HDR images can have a much higher range of lighting than regular images. They open up the shadows and recover highlight details. Talking about HDR photography it is usually implied that multiple exposures are taken

When dealing with a large number of image files it might be problematic to organize them properly. Keeping both – source image files and converted image files seems reasonable if you still need the originals, or want to try another conversion method later. But if you perform the same conversion operations over and over again,

RAW photos are the basis of professional digital photography. RAW is often referred to as the “digital negative”. Essentially it’s what your camera’s sensor records without any of the usual in-camera processing associated with JPEG capture. These files contain all of the image data captured by the camera’s image sensor without it being processed or

ImageConverter Plus prides itself in never growing complacent. We always want to get better. Our programmers work every day to build new and exciting features and opportunities for our users. Until recently ImageConverter Plus was available to download and use in several languages – English, French, Danish, Dutch, German, Italian, Norwegian, and Swedish. Starting with

There are so many beautiful places in the world that make a stunning subject for HDR photography. HDR photography allows going beyond the basics to express exciting vision, convey pure emotions, and put real feelings into every shot. From the technical point of view HDR photography is a way of increasing the dynamic range of

Have you ever wanted to preview the result of the image conversion prior to performing all the conversion operations? ImageConverter Plus is giving you a helping hand understanding that sometimes the process is difficult, especially for beginners. With the software downloaded you can easily check what the converted file will look like and that you

Alongside with multiple image conversion and resize options for practically everyone – even those people who do not have that much experience in image conversion, ImageConverter Plus offers something for the advanced users. Our advanced users can utilize our software to emit a restart marker after a specified number of MCU rows. MCUs, or Minimum

Google is the most used search engine on the web. More than one hundred million people submit queries to Google each day. Beyond the ordinary use of Google its developers have made it possible to utilize some of its functions on different web-sites providing a wider range of search results on various topics. This feature

The newest tendency of digital photography is high dynamic range capture. It is multi-shot HDR photography (and to be more exact it should be named pseudo-high dynamic range photography). The intention of HDRI is to accurately represent the wide range of intensity levels found in real scenes ranging from direct sunlight to the deepest darkest