The company that helped develop H.264 and H.265 codecs, Fraunhofer, developed a new codec together with Sony, Apple, Microsoft, Intel, namely H.266. The new H.266 codec is said to reduce the file size as much as by half – that’s 50% of the original file size. This will allow video files to be much smaller […]
We all know Creative Commons and the licensing of the content you want to use which falls under Creative Commons, right? But did you know that Creative Commons had a search tool on their website where you could search through millions of images and videos and sounds, which you could use for free? Yes, you […]
Researchers at GovTech Singapore division for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence lanched a website called Colourise at Colourise.sg, which uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) to colourise black and white images. The website is free to use and very easy to use, too. In most cases, the results are very good, very realistic, and the website is […]
Adobe’s Business Catalyst – their go to service for database-driven websites and services (online shops, shopping carts, etc) is coming to an end. Adobe bought Business Catalyst back in 2009 and offered it to users who could use it with Adobe Muse-based websites to add shopping carts, etc. As Adobe are refocusing on their products […]
Every year experts in the field of colour at Pantone come together and from the entire design industry choose the colour of the year. This decision affects a number of industries, including fashion, graphic design, web design, and art just to name a few. For the coming year, 2018, Pantone experts chose PANTONE 18-3838 Ultra […]
Adobe have announced the end of life for Flash plug-in. Adobe are going to stop supporting and the distribution of Flash by 2020. Some websites are still using Flash but the future belongs to HTML5. Adobe dropped Flash as an application last year and Flash became Animate CC, clearly stating what it can do and […]
A web developer, Piotr Chmolowski, created a web application that you can use to check how the image was edited in Lightroom. Pixel Peeper, that’s the name of the software developed by Piotr, is an EXIF viewer, which shows how an image – JPEG to be specific (it doesn’t work with raw files) – was […]
For the last few years Google have been working on reducing file sizes of images on the web and now they seem to have reached a point where they succeeded in a big way. In their blog post, Google say that they developed a new algorithm called Guetzli, which can reduce the file size of […]
The software company behind JPEG mini, Beamr, has made avilable an extension to Adobe Photoshop. JPEGmini is an image compression package, which works in a way that it analyses parts of the image, sectors, and applies different amounts of compression to different sections of the image, accordingly to the content of the image. The creators […]
Technology changes our world. Technology improves our lives. However, at the same time, our lives are becoming more and more complicated and technology sometimes makes us crazy about it. Look at mobile phones and tablets. I remember mobile phones being for us for making phone calls and texting people. But nowadays, mobile phones became more […]
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