Windows Media Photo Format
May 30th, 2006 by e-tech
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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