Whether its one of those ubiquitous little OLED displays or a proper LCD panel, once you’ve got something a bit more capable than the classic 16×2 character LCD wired up to your microcontroller, there ...

Imagine working with special cameras that capture light your eyes can’t even see—ultraviolet rays that cause sunburn or infrared heat signatures that reveal hidden writing. Or perhaps using ...

If you have ever worked with computer graphic images, whether they be from digital cameras, found on the web, or you create them yourself, then you know there are a lot of image file formats that are ...

In digital imaging, two image formats prevail above all else: JPEG (or JPG) and PNG. At first glance, a single image shown in both formats might seem identical, but if you look closely enough and dig ...

Chances are good that you’ve witnessed a wide variety of file formats flit across your screen, but do you really understand what they mean? For example, you may understand that a JPEG is for pictures ...

PNG, short for Portable Network Graphics, is a popular and high-quality graphic file format. The PNG format is both lossless and supports transparency, making it great for webpages. You can view PNG ...

You may have noticed an online image format appearing in your browser lately, especially if you have a blog or like to save images you find online. It’s called WebP ...

There's a lot to learn about image files on the command line, from verifying file format to finding out where and when photos were taken and maybe even getting an unusual view of what they look like.

Images often make up the largest part of webpages. They have their own tab on Google results and even their own algorithm. Appearing in image results should be part of a complete SEO strategy to reach ...

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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 ...