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Compressed Digital Photo File Formats – Storing Digital Photos By: Jack Church
Digital photos are stored as files on memory cards and computer hard disks. They can be stored in different file formats (each format has a unique file extension). Most of the formats are compressed to save space and each has its own pros and cons.(read entire article)(posted on: 2009-01-11)
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Lossless And Lossy Digital Photo File Compression By: Jack Church
Digital photos are stored as digital files on electronic media. Digital photos are comprised of pixels each one with a unique color and intensity. While digital photos do not have to be compressed in most cases they are. Compression serves one goal make files smaller and save storage space.(read entire article)(posted on: 2009-01-11)
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What Is A Digital Photo Jpeg File? By: Jack Church
Digital photos are stored as files on memory cards and computer hard disks. They can be stored in different file formats (each format has a unique file extension). Digital photo files can be compressed to save storage space and can use a standard or a proprietary format.(read entire article)(posted on: 2009-01-11)
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Png Is Replacing Gif Files For Digital Graphic Storage By: Jack Church
GIF is one of the oldest file formats used for graphics and digital photos storage. GIF has many technical advantages but it also has one big business disadvantage. GIF uses LZW compression which is tangled with patents and licensing issues. The free creation and usage of GIF files was always in debate.(read entire article)(posted on: 2009-01-11)
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Digital Photo Pixel Color Formats Rgb Cmyk And Hsv By: Jack Church
Digital photos are built of pixels. When you look at a digital photo on a computer screen or on a printed version of the photo you are really looking at millions of pixels each with a unique color and intensity. When put together all these pixels form the photo that you see. There are a few formats used to represent a pixel color – here are the common ones.(read entire article)(posted on: 2009-01-11)
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Pixel Color Depth Or Bits Per Pixel In Digital Photos By: Jack Church
Digital photos are built of many pixels. Each pixel has a unique value which represents its color. When you are looking at a digital photo your eyes and brain merge these pixels into one continuous digital photo. Each pixel has a color value that is one out of a finite number of possible colors – this number is known as color depth.(read entire article)(posted on: 2009-01-11)
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Getting More Battery Time From Your Digital Camera Battery By: Jack Church
Like other portable consumer electronic devices digital cameras use batteries as their power source. All batteries have one major drawback: they only last for a limited time. In this article we will explain what camera features consume the most energy and how you can squeeze more life time out of your digital camera battery.(read entire article)(posted on: 2009-01-11)
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Auto And Manual Focus Modes In Digital Cameras By: Jack Church
One of the important phases of shooting a good photo is focusing on the photo’s objects. Photos that are out of focus look bad and blurry. Sometimes shooting out of focus objects is done on purpose as an artistic effect but in most cases a sharp focused object is the photographer goal.(read entire article)(posted on: 2009-01-11)
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Methods For Focusing Your Digital Camera On Moving Objects By: Jack Church
Focusing is an important part of shooting a good photo alongside with composition and lighting. Focusing on static objects is relatively easy either by manually focusing or by using the camera auto focus feature. Focusing is much harder when the objects are constantly moving.(read entire article)(posted on: 2009-01-11)
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Continuous Focus Mode Used For Shooting Digital Photos Of Moving Objects By: Jack Church
It is harder to shoot good digital photos of moving objects than of still objects. When objects are still you have all the time that you need to focus on the object and set the other camera parameters like shutter speed and aperture. This time shortens as the objects in the frame move faster and faster.(read entire article)(posted on: 2009-01-11)
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