As
Microsoft gets ready to launch a new versions of Windows 10 and Microsoft
Office 2019 in June 2018 as noted in my Geezam
blog article entitled “How
Microsoft Office 2019 can use Cloud Registration to stop Piracy”,
compression may be the flavour of the year.
The
tech in question is the use of HEIF (High Efficiency Image Format) as reported
in “Windows
embraces new space-squeezing photo format”, published March 16 2018 by Stephen
Shankland, CNET News.
Based
on HEVC (High Efficiency Video Coding) used in video compressions, HEIF, which
when using HEVC is called HEIC (High Efficiency Image Compression), reduces
files sizes of a typical JPEG (Joint Pictures Expert Group) image by as much as
50% without loss in quality!!!
Microsoft and HEIC -
Photographer to benefit from included Blockchain support
Even
more stunning, it can act as a compression format, enableing smaller versions
of the following photo effects:
1. Live
photos
2. Bursts
of photos
3. 3D
scene data useful for special effects
4. Audio
Still
complex requirements for patent royalty payments may prevent this from becoming
widely adopted, even though it's already baked into Apple's iOS from 2017 and
Google's Android P launched just this month. What makes HEIC attractive to
photographers is that it makes image sharing difficult, due to its use of
blockchain.
This
makes images harder to steal and renders images uneditable and unviewable once
it can be confirmed that you did not give permission for it to be used. Any
tech that’ll make data plans last longer is always welcome. But I suspect this
may find use among photographers seeking to profit from their images.
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