JPG (Joint Photographic Experts Group)
JPG was a filetype developed by the Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG) to be a standard for professional photographers. Like the method ZIP files use to find redundancies in files to compress data, JPGs compress image data by reducing sections of images to blocks of pixels or “tiles.” JPG compression has the unfortunate side effect of being permanent, however, as the technology for the file was created for storing large photographic image files in surprisingly small spaces, and not for photo editing.
GIF (Graphics Interchange Format)
GIF, like JPG, is an older filetype, and one generally associated with the internet as opposed to photography. GIF stands for “Graphics Interchange Format” and employs the same lossless LZW compression that TIFF images use. This technology was once controversial (for patent enforcement issues) but has become an accepted format since all patents have expired.
PNG (Portable Network Graphics)
PNG stands for Portable Network Graphics (or, depending on whom you ask, the recursive “PNG-Not-GIF”). It was developed as an open alternative to GIF, which used the proprietary LZW compression algorithm discussed earlier. PNG is an excellent filetype for internet graphics, as it supports transparency in browsers with an elegance that GIF does not possess. Notice how the transparent color changes and blends with the background. Right-click the image to see. This is actually one image that is on four different background colors.
Which to use?
From left to right, these files are: 24-bit JPG Compressed, 8-bit GIF, 8-bit PNG, Full Quality 24-bit JPG, and 24-bit PNG. Note that the file sizes increase in this same direction.
PNG is the largest image type for bigger images, often containing information you may or may not find useful, depending on your needs. 8-bit PNG is an option, but GIF is smaller. Neither are optimal options for photography, as JPG is much smaller than lossless PNG with only minimal loss of quality. And for storage of high resolution files, JPG compresses to tiny proportions, with quality loss only visible on close inspection.
In short:
PNG is good option for transparency and non-lossy, smaller files. Larger files, not so much, unless you demand non-lossy images.
GIF is largely a novelty and only useful for animation, but can produce small 8-bit images.
JPG is still the king for photographs and photo-like images on the internet, but be careful, as your file can degrade with every save.
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ayushbpl10
Hello.
Many people had a difficulty with opening new iPhone *.heic image files on Android and I have created the app to help them solve this problem.
Now you can open photos from iPhone (.heic) on Android device using Luma: *.heic to jpg converter and viewer offline.
URL: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=luma.hevc.heif.image.viewer.converter
This is simple app which let you to view heic pictures and convert any number of them to jpeg at one time in several clicks preserving quality and all metadata.
App features:
* Browse and view any folder containing *.heic files.
* Open and view *.heic images.
* Save and share *.heic images in *.jpeg format.
* Batch convert any number of *.heic images preserving quality and metadata.
* Preserve all image metadata like: location, Exif, XMP, Copyright, ICC profile.
* Preserve depth image if presented.
Luma is designed to enable you open and convert to jpeg multiple images with *.HEIC file extension at a time. These are images in High Efficient Image Format (HEIF). Images in this format take twice less space on your device without any loss of image quality. Using this format will help you to save up to 50% of storage space for images.
Luma works completely offline and you don't need to internet connection to make the app working. You can either open single image or select any number of images and convert them to jpeg without loosing quality or metadata.
Hope for your positive feedback and review
The app does not transfer metadata when converting to HEIC. And it does not recognize DNG files as source. Can you please fix that?
Thank you
HEIF and HEIC file association to Luma app by file managers
Congratulations for this very nice Luma app! It enables HEIC file viewing on Holographic 3D phones (RED Hydrogen One and EStar Takee 1) as well as on other autostereoscopic 3D phones (ZTE Axon 7 Max and SuperD D1).
Why is the Luma app invisible to several android file managers (CX File Explorer, X-plore, Total Commander, Files by Google, etc.)?
Is it feasible to enable HEIF and HEIC file association to Luma app by the aforementioned file managers?
Can you do it, please? It will make many people happy.
Regards,
YuriRM
Parsing Error from Playstore with new Update.
Introduction
The photos captured by Apple or some Android phone will be stored as HEIF format. But, if this .HEIC format is opening from older device, maybe you can't do, the HEIF format will save a photo or video as .HEIC format and you need to convert back to JPG or JPEG or something else.
That why Total Media Converter is released. We would like to convert between .HEIC format to JPG/JPEG or PNG that you can upload or do something.
Main features:
- Convert between HEIC to other formats (JPEG/JPG/PNG).
- Keep all MetaData including (GPS, Copyright, Lens information, ...).
- Keep ICC Profile/ Color Profile.
- Smoothly converting.
- Multiple files as once (Free)
- Offline converting (no upload file anywhere)
- The .HEIC format is better than JPG, so we currently supporting convert from JPG to HEIC (Android 8.0+) that will save your storage so much.
- Video, audio also supported, that you can convert between many kind of Video/Audio in our app.
Link Google Play:
Download here
Any concern, contact us: [email protected]
We updated new app called ExifTool to manage metadata in files, see here.
kinkina2009 said:
A tiny and free mobile app for Android which lets you convert Apple's new iOS 11 & 12 photos from HEIC to JPG or PNG.
Which our app, you can enjoy some main features:
- Convert between HEIC to other formats (JPEG/JPG/PNG)
- Keep all Meta Data including (GPS, Copyright, Lens information, ...)
- Keep ICC Profile/ Color Profile.
- Smoothly converting.
- No-ads.
- Offline converting.
We're also implementing on more format like video/audio in our app, let try it first.
Link Google Play:
play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cellhubs.multipleconverterpro
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Update new features
- Convert from JPG/JPEG to HEIC format
The HEIC converter is now available on Android 8+ and above, it mean from this version. The user can convert from JPG to HEIC, and save a lot of storage space as in.
Updated post, I have write down more detail of this app. Some one need to be clear, contact us
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Is this the download link for Google Play Store?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?hl=en_US&id=com.litrebean.alltopdf
yes, thank you.
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