Windows Media Photo Format

During the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference, Microsoft announced a new image format, The new format: is being called Windows Media Photo (.wmp files).

Version 1.0

Windows Media Photo is a new file format for continuous-tone still images that surpasses the limitations of existing image formats. Windows Media Photo supports a wide range of features including:

Multiple color formats for display or print

Fixed or floating point high dynamic range image encoding

Lossless or high quality lossy compression

Extremely efficient decoding for multiple resolutions and sub-regions

Minimal overhead for format conversion or transformations during decode

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