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It’s a rare person who has zero interest in the local or world news. Daily newspapers, TV, internet – these are just a few sources one can draw the topics of interest from. General news, political news, business news, regional news, entertainment news, niche-oriented news (health, science, technology), crime reporting, and sensationalism – each person […]

Two important factors that determine the performance of applications are their launch times and their memory footprints. Reducing the size of an application’s executable file and minimizing its use of memory once it’s launched make the application launch faster and use less memory once it’s launched. The graphics engine presented by fCoder Group, Inc. is

To deal with graphic images you don’t have to be a photographer, or any graphics professional. Every person or every company needs to process graphic images once in a while. And if you don’t have proper application this may be really frustrating. Files are getting larger – especially photo files and other graphic files such

Nowadays everyone is familiar with digital images. Professional photographers use their cameras’ RAW format, but now even some mid-range digital cameras offer a RAW format setting. Users are moving to RAW format to take creative control over their digital images. RAW files represent the pure, unaltered scene captured by the sensors of the camera. This

Among numerous email service providers Gmail is one of the most popular ones. The hordes of features, massive capacity and ease of use – these are just a few features that attract the clients. There is no storage limit; there is no fee charged, there is a possibility to access it from anywhere – what

The definition of the alpha channel refers to transparency on a per-pixel basis. It controls the transparency of an image. Some pixel data in each image is always intended for transparency information. The alpha channel specifies how the pixel’s colors should be merged with another pixel when the two are overlaid, one on top of

The purposes of framing pictures may vary. Framed pictures normally stand out. A good picture frame enhances the image itself. If we take a painting, then without a frame the painting will look incomplete. Sometimes a frame can even be advantageous to the image contents when the artist did not do a really good job…But

The PDF image format is widely used for preservation of different types of documents. Its most valuable feature is the ability to be viewed on many different applications. No matter what platform you use – Windows, Mac, or any other one – the PDF file will look exactly the same. Another useful feature of PDF

Adding a watermark is a useful way of protecting your images from unauthorized use as well as identifying them. As soon as the watermark is applied, it gets pretty difficult for the third parties to remove it. A watermark can look very different – it can be your name, your company logo, your company or

Different image formats allow various color depth values. Color depth refers to the number of pixels assigned to a photograph. Color depth can go up to 16 million different colors and in general, describes the range of colors a photograph can have. Still, color depth does not determine the quality of a photograph. Photographic quality

Do your photos always come out the way you wish? Barely so. Most of them need further processing. Either the sharpness is not right, or the lighting did not work properly, or there are people or unnecessary elements in the image that distract attention. Image Converter Command Line performs a lot of photo correction tasks.

When comparing JPEG and BMP one can see that they are very different. JPEG compresses the images making them relatively small in size with decent image quality. BMP saves images without any quality loss, which results in large image files. The BMP image format is supported by all Windows versions starting fr om the most

Drag-and-dr op function is normally common with different Office applications when there is a necessity to move a certain file to a different location. It’s a good alternative to a “copy/paste” function since there are not so many efforts taken to perform it. Drag-and-drop can also be applied on image files when you, for instance,

Medical data sharing is of vital importance for scientific research, for prevention of duplication of efforts of biological scientists, for the overall development of medical science. Microscopic data is usually hard to interpret due to many obvious factors (really small-sized images need to be converted into something visible). Developers of ImageConverter Plus are happy to

When converting an image file you might want to give your target file a unique name. You can create target file names with their individual values using your own templates. Templates can be specified with the help of our macros collection used for batch file conversion – we can offer you about 30 of those,

PDF files are a reliable way to store images. They do not occupy too much space on disc and can be easily opened. Still, PDF files have a couple of drawbacks: they are difficult to integrate into web pages, and they are difficult to edit. Still, the latter one can turn into an advantage if

A texture is an object that contains one or more images that all have the same image format. Textures are important for programming, but how to find the best texture image format? The BMP format is faster than other ones due to its structure – it is a line of pixels, scanned in from the

Transference of files from one computer to another can be performed by various means, one of which is FTP (File Transfer Protocol). The main advantage of FTP is the ability to retrieve and send files to your own computer from anywhere. You can also save files to your FTP server. ImageConverter Plus gives you a

The ICO format is widely used in the web and was developed to create desktop and menu icons. You can come across the examples of the ICO format everywhere – favicons (“favorite icons”) appear next to a website’s name and allow websites and applications to use instantly recognizable symbols. It’s a rare webmaster who would

The Microsoft Windows Bitmap (BMP) format is the native bitmap format of Windows and is used to store virtually any type of bitmap data. It’s an excellent choice for a simple bitmap format which supports a wide range of RGB image data. BMP images can range from black and white up to 32 bit color.