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HD View Internet Plugin

sarahintampa — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 15:37:00 GMT

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 on your screen. You can move around the images and zoom in and out, all while still maintaining a high-definition view of what you’re seeing. The technology is still very much of a concept because sites have to be HD View-enabled in order for this to work, but there are still several sites that have done so if you want to check it out. Here’s the plugin for IE. Zooming in on photos reminds me a lot of the capabilities of Silverlight with its deep zoom, so it will be interesting to see how each are used.

Jon Udell talks HD Photo with Bill Crow

Larry — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 22:21:00 GMT

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 been one way around this problem, another is Microsoft's new HD Photo format.

You may think that you need some expensive or proprietary software to use this new format - not so. You can get started using HD Photo using Windows Live Photo Gallery, a free download. Check out this screencast of Jon Udell talking to Bill Crow about how simple it is for "happy snappers" to easily adjust photo attributes using Windows Live Photo Gallery.

HD Photo plug-in for Photoshop available

Larry — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 20:12:00 GMT

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 is an entirely new photo file format for continuous-tone imagines that allows multiple color formats for display or print, HDR encoding, and lossless or high-quality lossy compression. You're likely to see this file format start appearing on various camera hardware in the future. You can read more about HD Photo here and see the HD Photo Feature Specification 1.0 here. (via Bill Crow's HD Photo Blog)

HD Photo Considered for Standardization by JPEG

Nic — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 09:24:00 GMT

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 release
The HD Photo image-coding technology offers a host of new features and benefits focusing on the current and emerging needs of digital photography. The technology is a new file format for end-to-end digital photography that offers better image fidelity, higher image-compression efficiency and flexible editing features benefiting today’s and tomorrow’s digital-imaging applications.

More info and a great demo of JPEG vs HD Photo check out Bill Crow's HD Photo Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/billcrow/

HD Photo format as an open imaging standard

Jesse — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 18:54:00 GMT

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, Microsoft came to the show to talk about…platforms! In this case the new HD Photo image file format, which has been designed to provide superior image quality and features to support digital photography. CNET reported Microsoft’s intentions to make HD Photo a neutral standard, as it will be submitted to standards organizations in order to make sure it can get the widest adoption possible. Right now there are beta plug-ins for Photoshop that run in CS2 as well as the CS3 beta available for XP and Vista, with OS X drivers available shortly, and the finished plug-ins targeted for a May release. The HD Photo format has support for different pixel formats, high dynamic range, and wide gamut imaging. If those terms flew over your head, you can get the skinny in Bill Crow’s post about the HD Photo announcement.

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