HD Photo Plug-in for Adobe® Photoshop®

Microsoft just launch full version of plugin that allow photoshop to open HD photo file format (.wdp, .HDP). This plug-in is designed for use with the CS2 or CS3 versions of Adobe® Photoshop® software running under Mac OS X 10.4 or later, Microsoft Windows XP or Microsoft Windows Vista.

HD Photo files created on both Mac and PC have identical features and are fully compatible with each other working with Vista, Windows Live Photo Gallery, the HD Photo Device Porting Kit and now Photoshop.

This is the HD Photo file format plug-in for Adobe Photoshop software. The HD Photo plug-in supports a wide range of pixel formats (including high dynamic range, wide gamut formats) and numerous advanced HD Photo features.

Beta versions of these plug-ins had been available but given they have a 31 December expiration dates the final edition is extremely welcome.

Facts About HD Photo

HD Photo is a new file format for continuous-tone still images that surpasses the limitations of existing image formats. HD 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
• Efficient decoding for multiple resolutions and subregions
• Minimal overhead for format conversion or transformations during decode

HD Photo delivers a lightweight, high performance algorithm with a small memory footprint that enables practical, in-device encoding and decoding. It delivers compression quality comparable with JPEG-2000 and more than twice the quality of JPEG.

HD Photo is the new name for Windows Media Photo. Both names refer to the exact same file format. The Windows Media Photo name is still used to describe the implementation of HD Photo in existing Windows products.

Download

• Mac OS X Plug-in
• Windows XP & Vista Plug-in

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