Q: I haven't been able to send my iPhone photos to Walgreens and Walmart for printing due to a format issue — the photos were in the HEIC (High Efficiency Image Coding) file format the iPhone uses. I ...

The RAW photo format has been around for a long time, but perhaps you have never heard of it. Since at least the early 2000’s, professional photographers have used it as a way to get the highest level ...

Software giant would turn over its image tech to a standards group in a bid to displace today's reigning JPEG format. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, ...

Discover the differences between proprietary RAW files (CR2, CR3, NEF) and Adobe''s Digital Negative (DNG) format. Learn how ...

If you’ve tried to save an image off the web recently, there’s a chance it’s appeared in a strange new format. The AVIF format is growing in popularity online—and there’s every chance that it could ...

Apple's got one idea for next-gen photo technology, but a rival approach based on the new AV1 video compression tech could go a step further. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...

A proprietary digital camera format that contains all the pixel information captured by the camera's sensors. RAW formats give the photographer complete flexibility and artistic control to create the ...

Hello wise Arsians. I recently upgraded my camera and decided to update my workflow at the same time. I'm shooting RAW (Canon) and using Lightroom to process the photos. Originally I was planning to ...

I got to wondering today, if there was any image format, maybe binary black/white, or greyscale, or even color, that is just raw pixels, with no metadata. Even BMP, while it has pretty minimal ...

AVIF (AV1 Image File, derived from the AV1 video codec) files are relatively new compared to more well-known types such as GIFs, JPEGs, or PNGs, but support for them has been steadily growing. Many of ...

If you love something, set it free. Such is the reasoning behind a step Microsoft plans to announce Thursday: it will submit its HD Photo image format to a standards body. Making HD Photos a neutral ...