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| - Information about HEIC |
| File extension |
| heic |
| File category |
| Image File |
| Stands for |
| High efficiency image coding |
| Developer |
| Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) |
| Overview |
| HEIC allows the storage of images and graphics in high quality by providing better compression than traditional formats, such as JPEG. It is widely used by Apple in its devices, like iPhones and iPads, for storing photographs. It is popular among the public due to its high efficiency and improved quality. |
| Technical description |
| HEIC is a part of HEIF (High Efficiency Image Format) and uses HEVC (High Efficiency Video Coding) to compress the files. This method provides highly efficient files in a reduced size. The file structure includes image data, metadata, and auxiliary data, which help to take live photos and create animated images. |
| Links |
| wikipedia.org |
| - Information about TIFF |
| File extension |
| tiff |
| File category |
| Raster image file |
| Stands for |
| Tagged Image File format |
| Developer |
| Aldus, Adobe systems |
| Overview |
| TIFF or TIF is particularly used by graphic artists and photographers to store the raster images. It is very easy to scan and fax under this extension. It offers other features as well like word processing, image manipulation, optical character recognition and DTP (Desktop publishing)- which use page layout software. Earlier it was capable of storing two values of each pixel that is why it was only binary image format but now it can have both grayscale images and colour images. It has become more popular due to its wide acceptance of deep-colour photographs. Besides this, it can also have a vector-based clipping path which comprises of outlines and cropping. |
| Technical description |
| The photos have a high quality of graphics as this format supports colour depths from 1 to 24 bits. A single TIFF file can also include header tags which define the geometry of an image like size, definition, image-data arrangement and applied image compression. It offers LZW (Lempel-Ziv-Welch) compression which follows a lossless algorithm to reduce the size of a file. Hence, these files can be edited and saved again without any loss of image quality. It also reserves the information of compression method and by default, the value is one, which means no compression. Furthermore, this format uses 32- bit offsets, which restricts the file size to 4 GiB (Gibibytes). Some variants may also use 64-bit offsets to provide compatibility to large files. It should be noted that every file of this type begins with a two-byte indicator of byte order. |
| Links |
| wikipedia.org |
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