"I just downloaded, tried, then purchased your program without a glitch. Why can't all programs be this easy to try, purchase, and register?" — David von Seggern
From the Amazon.com Editorial Review:
"Compressed Image File Formats is an appealingly compact and useful
guide to some of today's most popular file formats used for image data.
For any programmer who needs to know how images are stored, this concise
reference can serve as a really invaluable resource…
Whether you are a programmer faced with decoding or encoding image data,
or an interested Webmaster who wants to know the pros and cons of today's
image file formats, Compressed Image File Formats provides a worthwhile
and concise reference to what's inside image files." --Richard Dragan
Graphics File Formats with CDROM
by James D. Murray, William vanRyper, Deborah Russell (Editor)
The publisher, O'Reilly and Associates:
"O'Reilly's new edition of the Encyclopedia of Graphics File Formats
is a wonderfully diverse kind of product -- it's a book, a CD-ROM, and
a World Wide Web product, all in one. You'll find printed information
in convenient book form. You'll be able to access text files, images,
and code locally on the CD-ROM provided with the book. And you'll be able
to link automatically from the product to the O'Reilly GFF Web Center
-- and from there to the larger world of the Internet -- for even more
complete (and up-to-date) information about graphics file formats…
With this second edition, we've provided content and tools that will make
this product an invaluable resource for graphics illustrators and designers
as well. Unlike graphics programmers, these users don't need to know the
details of how GIF, TIFF, and PNG files are constructed. However, they
do need to make the right choices about which formats can be converted
to the formats they or their customers need, which support the color depth
they want, and which compress fastest. Whatever your graphics needs, you'll
find the new Encyclopedia of Graphics File Formats an invaluable aid --
packed with information, constantly up-to-date, and fun to use. We're
excited about the information and the tools we've been able to collect,
and we look forward to sharing the fruits of our labors with you."
Website Graphics Now
by Noel Douglas (Editor), Geert J. Strengholt, Willem Velthoven, strengho,
Liesbeth Den Boer
From the Amazon.com Editorial Review:
Chock-full of electronic eye candy, Webs!te Graph!cs Now surveys a number
of cutting-edge Web sites created by companies and individuals from around
the world. The editors of the book, from the Netherlands' Mediamatic Magazine,
sift through and examine the elements of the featured Web sites in an
adequate attempt to outline the requirements for great Web design…
The large size of the book lends itself well to explorations of sites
like "The Secret Garden of Mutabor." In the section dedicated
to this narrative and animation-rich site, multiple slides illustrate
pathways through what functions much like an elegant, story-centered game.
Other Web sites featured in the book include the fully-mapped-out Mercedes-Benz
A-Class promotional site, the Colors Magazine site, and a number of other
big corporate sites, along with some lesser-known but innovatively designed
sites. --Ryan Kuykendall
Web-sites
Image File Formats
Image file formats provide a standardized method of organizing and storing image data. This article deals with digital image formats used to store photographic and other image information.
