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The term “transparency” may be applied onto various topics: politics, finances, water, ice, air, etc. The term carries some positive impact and desire to improve the subject under discussion. Making things transparent we make them more open, more accessible and easier to understand. When we apply transparency on digital images, this may be useful when […]

There are not so many image formats that can be called device independent. Device independent means the ability of the image format to be displayed on different types of technical devices and different operating systems. In most cases one needs to convert images from one format to another just to overcome the problem of being

Image files can come from so many sources that it’s almost impossible to name their exact number. In addition to the image formats that are well known, there are sub-formats and/or format variations. The goal of ImageConverter Plus is to provide support for the largest number of image formats. It’s both challenging and rewarding. No

There is no right answer to the question which format is better. This is the competition between different photographers that lasts forever. The name of the RAW format reflects its essence – raw information that comes directly from the camera sensor. The RAW files are a 32-bit color space, so there is naturally a wider

There may be numerous situations when the order of conversion is of importance. Although it may seem first that if images that need to be converted can be “all put in one basket”, exceptions are quite often. For example, original image files may be all in the same folder, but refer to different dates; or

Pre-press preparation is the process of preparing your images for commercial print. This field is one of those where the proper choice of color mode is essential. CMYK consisting of Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black is usually a preferred color mode. Offset color printers use the CMYK color model to produce the vast array of

What would you do if you got hundreds of image files fr om one and the same event, wh ere some files would share the same name? This is not a good idea to place them into different folders, but how to re-organize them so that they become properly converted and saved in necessary folders

Images may come fr om very different sources – not just digital cameras, but also telescopes and microscopes. Talking about microscopy, digital imaging is essential for scientific research – to study the inner structure of malignant and benign tumors, to understand the nature of infection, to do the laboratory work and share the results. Images

Image processing sometimes requires professional approach. An average user will barely know all the details associated with image formats’ peculiarities and/or image conversion, that’s why developers of ImageConverter Plus have introduced some features that allow professionals share their experience with novices. ImageConverter Plus allows working with graphic images in a complex way, but by means

When comparing PDF and JPEG, each format will be full of advantages. The necessity to convert these formats into one another is very frequent though and will depend on specific needs. ImageConverter Plus allows saving images into PDF, though conversion fr om PDF to other formats is not widely accepted, because PDF is more likely

Command line interface is a special way of interacting with the computer via a text command instead of a mouse click. There are many ways to perform operations on a computer, but command line is usually treated as the main alternative to GUI. Command-line does not require that much memory; there is no necessity to

Layers are a way of having multiple images of the same size kept in the same image for easy storage or presentation sequence. All the image layers interact with each other through various blending functions thus creating great effects. Even those users who have not used layers before, but suddenly open them for themselves, no

The digital world is rich with image formats, compression types, color types, resolution, etc. All these specifics are not so easy to master. Let’s take a digital camera. An average user will barely know what image formats the camera is able to support. Meanwhile, apart from regular JPEG format (which is truly the most widely

Medical data sharing is of vital importance for scientific research, for prevention of duplication of efforts of biological scientists, for the overall development of medical science. Microscopic data is usually hard to interpret due to many obvious factors (really small-sized images need to be converted into something visible). Developers of ImageConverter Plus are happy to

Nicely framed photograph always looks advantageous. If we are talking about some unique wooden or glass frame, then it can become a good gift to a dear relative. Digital photos that you post online can also capture attention if they have a border added to them. Sometimes a border can emphasize the background (if the

EXR is a high dynamic range format – the best format to use when working with 32-bit HDR imagery. It supports several compression modes that can be either lossless or lossy. Here are the main compression algorithms, including two different methods of Zip compression practiced by EXR and supported by ImageConverter Plus: None—disables all compression.

Project fulfillment usually requires several people to participate in, especially when a project needs to be completed within short time constraints. Although the goal is the same – successful project completion, the approach can be different and very much depends on individuals. Each person has his or her preferences in dealing with files, text, etc.

File extension .iff refers to Amiga Interchange File Format and allows transferring data between different software applications. Although this format is considered outdated, everyone may come across .iff files once in a while. You are most likely to find an IFF file in a program file for an Electronic Arts game like the Sims, FIFA

Gamma in digital imaging refers to a relationship between a pixel’s numerical value and its actual luminance. Without gamma, shades captured by a digital camera would look different from what we see with our eyes, if we are talking about a standard monitor. The thing is that our eyes perceive light in a different way

The PCX image format is not widely used nowadays. It was the native file format for PC Paintbrush and became one of the first widely accepted DOS imaging standards. It has been replaced with other image formats since then. One can come across PCX in games when stores full-screen graphics. Unfortunately, due to the outdatedness