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Topic: Image file formats


  
 Image File Formats
Scitex CT (Continuous Tone): A file format for use with Scitex computers for pinting and scanning.
IFF (Interchange File Format)--Amiga: general graphics format, serves a similat function as PICT on the Macintosh.
MacPaint: A file format for MacPaint, considered to be pretty obsolete by now I guess.
http://www.cs.brown.edu/stc/summer/workshop/summer_formats.html   (521 words)

  
 CSC 249/449 Image File Formats
Image file formats are the standards by which pictoral information is stored in and retrieved from files.
The historical department image file format, which a lot of old software runs on is known as iff, and it is convenient to designate iff image file with the.iff suffix (as in picture.iff).
Image file formats are distinct from memory or in-core formats, which are used for handling images inside programs.
http://ftp.cs.rochester.edu/users/faculty/nelson/courses/vision/resources/image_formats.html   (1309 words)

  
 Victor Image File Formats
The common file type used for raw data is BIF, which stands for binary image file.
BMP is the Microsoft Windows format for bitmapped images of 1-, 4-, 8-, 16-, 24-, or 32-bits pixel depth.
This format is used for embedding a grayscale or color image in a PostScript document or for printing on a PostScript printer.
http://www.catenary.com/prodsumm/filetyps.html   (952 words)

  
 Formatguide - File Formats
The DXB format is the binary format of DXF, which is smaller and faster to load.
AI is the native file format for Adobe Illustrator.
Images with a maximum of 256 colors should instead be stored as GIF, which have a more efficient way of compressing these images.
http://www.formatguide.com/fileformat/fileformat.asp   (1768 words)

  
 Image File Formats
The Tagged-Image File Format (TIFF) is used to exchange files between applications and computer platforms.
When you save an Adobe Photoshop image in TIFF, you can choose to save in a format that can be read either by IBM PC-compatible or Macintosh computers.
GIF is a LZW-compressed format designed to minimize file size and electronic transfer time.
http://www.ncsu.edu/www/ncsu/design/sod5/it/digitize/fileformats.html   (1233 words)

  
 Image file formats - TIF, JPG, PNG, GIF
The JPG file format is the smallest by far, and a JPG copy should be used for such purposes (when file size is all important).
Briefly, the three most common image file formats, the most important for general purposes today, are TIF, JPG and GIF.
TIF file format is the undisputed leader when best quality is required.
http://www.scantips.com/basics09.html   (369 words)

  
 8. Image Compression & File Formats
Their files are approximately 60% smaller than uncompressed TIFF files with the same number of pixels and the time you have to wait between shots is shorter since processing time in the camera is shorter.
A file for a low-resolution 1 megapixel image is 3 megabytes, and at 3 megapixels is climbs to 9 megabytes, and at 6 megapixels all the way to 18 megabytes.
When you take a photograph, the size of the image file is huge compared to many other types of computer files since each pixel requires 24 bits (3 bytes) to store color information.
http://www.shortcourses.com/choosing/files/08.htm   (1724 words)

  
 General image file formats
XBM is the X-Window one Bit image file format, which has been standardized by the MIT X-consortium.A major constraint on the use of images is the large data volume which has to be dealt with.
In the absence of an image format converter, like the image toolkit imtools of the San Diego Supercomputer Center, it is important that the visualization software is capable of understanding the formats most used.
The format consist of a header containing the dimensions of the image, followed by the actual image data.
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/scivis/tutorial/linked/imageformat.htm   (464 words)

  
 Resources - Links - Digital Image Formats
There are many different digital image formats in use today, and this creates an additional level of complexity for imaging systems beyond the analogy with thermodynamic systems.
Some digital image formats are more widely adopted than others, and it is important when designing an imaging product to consider formats used by complementary products.
Digital image formats are ways to represent images in digital form.
http://www.i3a.org/links_digital-image-formats.html   (268 words)

  
 Image File Formats
A Photoshop file is the native file format for Adobe Photoshop.
RIFF is a file format for storing many kinds of data.
During the early years of computer graphics development many proprietary formats were designed.
http://www.lths.org/brady_files/image_file_formats.htm   (393 words)

  
 Image file formats
The bshort file format is lossless in intensity information as compared to the scanner native formats, and is somewhat easier to manage, with the caveats listed below.
Files are named freely, with the exception that they must end in.img and must be accompanied by a matching header file, whose name ends in.hdr
Because all of the scan information is potentially useful, when converting from genesis format, it is often preferable to use the special program Genesis2Analyze, which preserves this header data in a separate file.
http://airto.loni.ucla.edu/BMCweb/HowTo/FileFormats.html   (1278 words)

  
 Image Formats
If you've played with Bitmaps versus any other image formats, you might have noticed that the Bitmap format creates images that are a little heavy on the bytes.
"Compression" is a computer term that represents a variety of mathematical formats used to compress an image's byte size.
This formatting falls into a lot of proprietary formats, formats made for specific programs.
http://www.htmlgoodies.com/tutorials/web_graphics/article.php/3479931   (3805 words)

  
 Image File Formats
The information in an image file is encoded in a format which specifies the way the information is organized.
Since image files are rather large, certain file formats "compress" the information in order to reduce the file size and provide for more efficient storage and data transmission.
MPEG- MPEG is a digital motion picture format.
http://www.udel.edu/Biology/Wags/b667/lect2/lect2_16.htm   (293 words)

  
 Digital image file types
The details of the image storage algorithm are included as part of the file.
These are the preferred working formats as you edit images in the software, because only the proprietary formats retain all the editing power of the programs.
The disadvantage is that there is a different RAW format for each manufacturer, and so you may have to use the manufacturer's software to view the images.
http://www.wfu.edu/~matthews/misc/graphics/formats/formats.html   (1694 words)

  
 4: image file formats
Image file formats discusses images from a scanning perspective.
Some graphics programs such as Freehand, however, use vector-based files as the "working" file in which you draw objects, then allow you to choose from many formats (including vector, raster, or metafiles) for exporting.
It is not recommended to put both animation and transparency in the same image file, as it doesn't usually display well.
http://trc.ucdavis.edu/msjacob/partners/45_imagefiles.htm   (1120 words)

  
 Image File Formats
This format is proprietary to Adobe software (Photoshop, Illustrator, Pagemaker, etc.).
There are dozens of formats, some proprietary to specific programs, and others with broad, cross program and platform usage.
To prepare this image for the web or Powerpoint presentation, open the archive file, resize to desired specifications and save in a different location as a JPEG with compression.
http://ppathw3.cals.cornell.edu/PhotoLab/KnowledgeBase/DigiPhotoTips/FileFormats.htm   (530 words)

  
 Understanding Graphics File formats
When using graphics files in documents, presentations, web pages, or just for printing, it is important that you choose a format which is suitable for the task you are undertaking.
Like all numbers in a computer, the values of colours are stored in a binary format.
In addition to just considering the number of colours, and degree of compression a given file format can provide, there are a couple of extra tricks they have up their sleeve which may be of use.
http://www.molbiol.bbsrc.ac.uk/protein/graphics_formats.html   (2987 words)

  
 C. Image File Formats
DCX is a container file format for PCX files, defined by Intel.
Such images are written as binary PDF 1.1 files, using either JPEG or HEX encoding depending on the image mode (and whether JPEG support is available or not).
The open function identifies files from their contents, not their names, but the save method looks at the name to determine which format to use, unless the format is given explicitly.
http://www.pythonware.com/library/pil/handbook/formats.htm   (1030 words)

  
 Image File Formats
EPS files can be written up to 32-bit CYMK (Cyan, Yellow, Magenta, Black) file, which is useful for bringing files into other programs such as Illustrator and QuarkXPress.
Ususally Targa file are used to write 32 bit files which would be 24 bit true color with an 8 bit Alpha channel.
PIXAR file format - This file format can be used for PIXAR's rendering and animation program.
http://www.rice.edu/Computer/Tutorials/ravl/pshop/fileformats.html   (449 words)

  
 Graphic/Image File Formats
In order to display a graphic image created with millions of different colors, computers which are restricted to 256 colors must simulate the colors they cannot display.
Some file formats only support bitmap images and others only vector graphics.
The main advantage of interlacing is that end users know that they are about to view a graphic image rather than viewing a blank space.
http://www.lm.havre.k12.mt.us/teachertools/graphicimages.html   (1437 words)

  
 Understanding image file formats
When you work with several file formats, you need to be aware of the two types of graphic files-vector and raster-and how they work with each other.
If you send a file in the wrong format, some data loss may occur or the recipient may not be able to use the file at all.
The only exception is that a 32-bit image is usually a 24-bit image with additional information encoded in the remaining 8 bits-an alpha channel, for example.
http://amath.colorado.edu/computing/graphics/understand_fmts.html   (1833 words)

  
 ATS Course Materials Online: File Formats for Images
There are many other formats used to represent image information on the computer which you might encounter.
If you will be using this image on a Macintosh in an authoring or desktop publishing program, this is the format you need.
If you will be using this image on a PC in an authoring or desktop publishing program, it is likely that TIFF will be useful.
http://www.cit.cornell.edu/atc/materials/dig/formats.shtml   (381 words)

  
 Image file formats.
It's a promising new format; however, it is not yet the standard, and many Web browsers don't know how to read these files yet.
GIFs work best for drawings and graphics that use just a handful of colors, such as "line art." GIFs can be used for transparent images and is the only format for animated images.
PowerPoint can import images saved in both of these formats, as well as.PCT format for the Macintosh and.BMP format for Windows-based computers.
http://tech.shu.edu/webdev/design/11-gifvsjpeg.htm   (601 words)

  
 Export image file formats
The Panorama Factory can export your panorama to a variety of output formats.  Each export filter has particular capabilities and limitations.  Some limitations are determined by the file format itself (for example, QTVR does not support spherical projection) and others are limitations of the export filter.
Conventional images may be exported in this format.  This feature may be used to add hotspots to a JPEG image, for example.
The export format supports hotspots.  The text in this column indicates which file the hotspots are stored in.
http://www.panoramafactory.com/deu/help/export_formats.html   (616 words)

  
 Image File Formats
The TIFF format is often used for archival purposes because it stores the graphic data in a "raw" uncompressed form ("raw" meaning it tries to keep all the information intact, from the number of pixels in an image to what color each pixel represents for example).
However, I exported some existing images into the gif format and input the line of code into argus, without using QScan and Argus did not accept the line of code.
An 8.5" X 11" image scanned at 300 dpi could be well over 75MB.
http://members.aol.com/ArgusUsers/archiv61.htm   (1242 words)

  
 Image / File Formats
you’ll be importing external sound and image files for animation depth
The image file is kind of like a blueprint for the image
Just like raster images, all the information for a vector image is stored in an image file
http://www.kidzonline.org/teachit/2D/03.htm   (165 words)

  
 Adobe Illustrator: Image File Formats
They want you to choose the file format for electronic file storage based on a number of things, though, not just cost of creating/storing.
What they're trying to say is that if you choose a TIFF for your electric file format, there are a number of things about that file format that add up to give it a low to moderate overhead cost:
4) cost of the software used to adjust the TIFF image if it needs adjusting to be more legible (Adobe PhotoShop for example).
http://experts.about.com/q/1027/3638441.htm   (385 words)

  
 Table: Common Image File Formats
Some files referred to as lossless JPEGs are really non-JPEG compressed files in a JFIF wrapper.
[11] The JP2 file format also specifies a flexible means to add substantial metadata, either as binary data or in XML.
[9] Others are supported in the file format extensions defined in ISO/IEC 15444-2 (JPX file format).
http://www.library.cornell.edu/preservation/tutorial/presentation/table7-1.html   (536 words)

  
 iMage 1.0 converts image file formats MacMinute News
The new software quickly translates image files from one format to another "without hassle or fuss." iMage imports JPEG, GIF, PNG, TIFF, Photoshop, PICT, BMP, MacPaint, and other file formats.
It exports JPEG, PNG, TIFF, Photoshop, PICT, BMP, MacPaint, and other file formats.
No messing with filename extensions, no making the same decisions over and over again, and no waiting to load dozens of software features you don't need," said Pete Gontier, Kokorozashi president.
http://www.macminute.com/2003/03/31/kokorozashi   (138 words)

  
 Image file formats
A longer tutorial on web image formats Bitmaps (BMP) were invented by Microsoft.
Since GIF had been showing its age in a number of ways even prior to that, the announcement only catalyzed the development of a new and much-improved replacement format.
This is a modest attempt to describe some of the various digital formats for images.
http://www-math.bgsu.edu/~zirbel/rfim/imageformats.html   (279 words)

  
 GRAPHICS: Graphic file formats
A third format, PNG, has been available since 1995 but has been little used because of poor browser support.
Different graphic file formats employ varying compression schemes, and some are designed to work better than others for certain types of graphics.
The two primary Web file formats are GIF and JPEG.
http://www.webstyleguide.com/graphics/formats.html   (75 words)

  
 GRAPHICS: Summary: File formats
JPEG produces excellent results for most photographs and complex images
In theory, you could use either graphic format for the visual elements of your Web pages.
In practice, however, most Web developers will continue to favor the GIF format for most page design elements, diagrams, and images that must not dither on 8-bit display screens.
http://www.webstyleguide.com/graphics/summary.html   (132 words)

  
 Image File Formats
Image files may be from photographs, from scanned pictures on paper, from clip art or paint-software sketches.
Note the sizes of the same image in different file formats:
  They are saved as either raster files (bitmaps) or vector files (formulas), and may be compressed for space saving.
http://uwadmnweb.uwyo.edu/ctl/Inst_Computing/WorkshopNotes/ImgRfnNt.htm   (58 words)

  
 Image File Formats White Papers, Webcasts and Case Studies
Image File Formats White Papers, Webcasts and Case Studies
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