Even formats that superficially appear to be straightforward can contain many separate pieces of information. Let's take a look at the contents of some interesting formats. Here's a Canon CR2 file courtesy of www.rawsamples.ch. Within it there [...]

You can’t always tell what's inside a file from its extension. In this post we’ll delve into the contents of JFIF/JPEG files. JPEG is often used as a catchall term for both the encoding (whether lossy JPEG [...]

Formats age. A question is how and, perhaps even more importantly, when to migrate to newer formats. My Adobe PDF reader updated the other day, and I suddenly received this notice when opening a file: [...]

The mighty JPEG: born in 1992, it is still one of the most commonly used formats for creating photos and images. It’s also a go-to format for document generation and archiving, photo archiving, and data normalization for [...]