HD Photo

HD View is a technology developed by Microsoft Research specifically for the purpose of viewing and interacting with large scale images on the web. As the HD Team describes it, it’s a “camera for the web.” But really what it does is allow you to interact with large, panoramic images that don’t fit…

Did you know that many cameras can take better photos than the jpeg standard can display? This means that the camera is often trying to figure out which ball to drop in terms of how to save the photo and therefore limits you in the color correction you can make after taking the picture. Raw has…

Bill Crow writes that the free Photoshop plugin for HD photo is available now for both Windows and Mac OSX. This will work for XP, Vista, OSX 10.5 and 10.5 using Photoshop CS2 and CS3. If you missed Bill's presentation on HD Photo Guidelines, you can see the Powerpoint here. HD Photo…

Pretty big news for the HD Photo team. Microsoft’s HD Photo technology is being considered for standardization by the Joint Photographic Expert Group (JPEG) as "JPEG XR".From the press releaseThe HD Photo image-coding technology offers a host of new features and benefits focusing on the…

July 31 2007: Update from Bill Crow: This is a pretty exciting day for all of us working on HD Photo.  Today, the Joint Photographic Expert's Group (JPEG) announced a new work item for the standardization of a HD Photo as a new file format called JPEG XR (XR is short for "extended…

The PMA convention in Las Vegas last week was the event to watch for any self-respecting shutterbug, with Sony unleashing svelte, new point n’ shoot Cybershots, and Canon dropping a 10 frames-per-second 1D Mark III beast on those with the cash (and the muscle) to carry one away. Not to be left out,…