Questions tagged [file-format]
A file format is a particular way that information is encoded for storage in a computer file.
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Jpg image cannot be opened [closed]
I have an image taken from a Canon digital camera. When transferring the JPG images to the PC, none of them work, they cannot be opened.
Could you check if you have any fix options? I used several ...
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How to view images from diskette containing .IDC files from the late 1980s?
I had a friend send me five 3½-inch floppy disks containing .IDC files. The dates on these diskettes indicate they were taken in 1989. These diskettes are all structured the same, as they contain ...
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Exporting from LR is suddenly saving much smaller files
Last week when exporting from LR with quality set at 100 and pixels per inch at 300 a file would export around 25-28 MB, today when exporting I noticed the file sizes are much smaller with the exact ...
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Why don't most cameras support PNG format?
I prefer PNG format to JPG, because JPG uses lossy compression.
When I capture a screen in my PC or scan a picture or document in my scanner, I always save them as PNG format.
If a camera could ...
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Edit an image's data so that a digital camera can read it
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I have a Polaroid PoGo Zink printer (link to manual) that I would like to print an image on. Unfortunately I cannot get the Bluetooth to connect succesfully to any of my devices, so I am ...
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Fast, lossy compressed, 10 bit image format (Or 12 bit or 16 bit)
I'm looking for an image format to keep my photo archive. Currently I'm keeping compressed DNG + 80% quality JPG. JPG is useful because you can easily convert and manage, is small and is fast to read/...
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Which non-raw formats have the same capabilities as raw?
There's plenty of "raw vs jpeg" stuff out there, but no one ever seems to talk about other formats like TIFF (16 bit, uncompressed or lossless compression).
When color grading or doing ...
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What quality to choose when converting to JPG?
When you export a picture to JPG you can normally choose its quality in a 1-100 scale. I like to keep a good quality but it wouldn't make sense to keep a JPG that will be almost as big as the original ...
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What is a .webp file?
I am accustomed to using old file formats. For example,
.JPEG
.BMP
.GIF
Beginning in the ...
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What is a "losee file format"?
I am wondering what a "losee file format is". I came across the term in my photography class book The exact question in the book is:
Which of these file formats are considered losee?
Does that ...
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Can you "open" RAW camera files? [closed]
I was having a conversation with my father who used to be a photographer, and I said “when I open a raw file…”
He interrupted me and said, "you can never open a raw file, the editing software ...
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Is SSD a safe replacement for HDD image storage?
Every small M.2 SSD (solid-state drives) is increasingly replacing HDD (hard disk drives) in new PCs for file storage.
SSD is proven to be better for image editing, but what about image storage? Is a ...
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64GB CF Card exFat Format in D300?
I just bought a Sandisk 64GB CF card to use in a Nikon D300. Display says card is full. I reformatted the card in my PC, no luck. I formatted the card in my camera, same thing. Card appears to format ...
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Possible to open Capture One preview/proxy files in Photoshop?
One of our photographers lost his raw files from a photoshoot, but we still have the Capture One preview/proxy files (.CR2.cop) and I'm trying to find a way to extract image data from them to salvage ...
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Create a image file format with dynamic resolution to better resemble the human perception? [closed]
Would it not be great to have a dynamic image resolution to better resemble the human perception of things? It would be made so that the photo would be taken with different zooming levels and then all ...
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