Microsoft Officially Announces HD Photo

re: Microsoft Officially Announces HD Photo

Citezein — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 19:42:15 GMT

I was quite interested to see how HD Photo faired against JPEG, given the claims made. My results haven't been very good though and I'm wondering if you could comment.

This shows the differences:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/128/417638386_6745780e3c_o.png

At the same file size, the HD Photo image has blocky backgrounds and artifacts around fine detail areas on the face. These were both created from the same original master file at 8bit, sRGB. The HD Photo version was created with the Photoshop plugin set to 61% so that the files were the same size.

Am I doing something wrong? Would the advanced features of the export plugin have helped me get a better result? I can provide the original image if you're interested.

Thanks.

Microsoft Announces HD-Photo

Steve Rowe's Blog — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 20:32:06 GMT

Once known as Windows Media Photo, Microsoft just released a new photo format called HD-Photo. Bill Crow

Microsoft Announces HD-Photo

RSS It All — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 21:44:30 GMT

Once known as Windows Media Photo, Microsoft just released a new photo format called HD-Photo. Bill Crow

HD Photo Follow Up

Robert Accettura's Fun With Wordage — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 01:34:21 GMT

A few days ago I mentioned there are some limitations with HD Photo in it’s current state. The limitations are in the legal sense. Specifically they prohibit open source implementations. This obviously hinders adoption as many large organizati..

re: Microsoft Officially Announces HD Photo

billcrow — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 04:38:25 GMT

Hi Citezein,

It would be great if you could provide me a link to the original image, or at a minimum, let me know the resolution of the original so I know what compression ratio you're trying to achieve. I'd be happy to do my own test and provide my recomendations for encoder settings. This is also the type of issue we're looking to fine tune with this beta release, making the simple encoder controls as intuitive as possible.

Thanks,

Bill Crow

HD Photo Program Manager

re: Microsoft Officially Announces HD Photo

Citezein — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 05:14:55 GMT

Bill,

The original file is a CR2 raw from a Canon Digital Rebel XTi. I took it into Photoshop from Lightroom, converted it to 8bit sRGB and resized to 600 x 900px. I then applied a small amount of sharpening with Smart Sharpen.

The file, with those changes made and saved as a PSD can be downloaded from my site: http://brian.vallelunga.com/files/headshot.zip

HD Photo seemed to have issues in the out of focus background and in the skin and hair on the face. The background lost its smoothness and there is visible blockiness. The skin, especially around the eyes, mouth, and cheeks also appears to have artifacts and a coarseness not there in the original. If you'd like the original CR2 raw file to play with, just let me know. I'm interested in seeing the results.

I'm going to try HD Photo on a photo with more fine detail such as a landscape and see if it fairs better under those conditions.

MS announces HD Photo

Mattias talks about BizTalk, .NET, TFS, etc. — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 19:29:22 GMT

Microsoft has announced HD Photo , formerly known as Windows Media Photo. Bill Crow has much more information

Great news, about the standardization

jmuffat — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 13:59:43 GMT

Good luck with the standard! As of myself, HD photo just sounds like the perfect format to replace TIF when saving/transmitting a processed photo. This all sounds very promising, keep up the good work !

re: Microsoft Officially Announces HD Photo

someone — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 10:28:16 GMT

Please update the Picture and Fax Viewer for XP to support HD Photo/WM Photo. And some tool on XP to create HD Photo files.

Tech update 2007.05

Bits and Bytes — Sun, 27 May 2007 21:16:46 GMT

Τα 10 πιο σημαντικά νέα χαρακτηριστικά (σύμφωνα με το BetaNews) του Windows Server 2008 (πρώην Longhorn

Tech update 2007.05

Bits and Bytes — Sun, 27 May 2007 21:16:50 GMT

Τα 10 πιο σημαντικά νέα χαρακτηριστικά (σύμφωνα με το BetaNews) του Windows Server 2008 (πρώην Longhorn