Bill Crow's Digital Imaging & Photography Blog
News & information about Seadragon, Deep Zoom, JPEG XR and related technology
The new Seadragon.com
Microsoft Live Labs just released a new free service at seadragon.com. It lets you transform...
Date: 07/30/2009
JPEG XR is Now an International Standard
I’m very excited to share the news that JPEG XR is now an approved ISO/IEC International...
Date: 07/30/2009
JPEG XR for Digital Cameras Nears Completion
The JPEG XR Technical Spec Work is Done The headline for this blog post is the headline of...
Date: 01/29/2009
HD Photo Plug-ins for Photoshop are Released
HD Photo plug-ins for Adobe® Photoshop® CS2 and CS3 have been officially released for both Windows...
Date: 12/06/2007
HDR and Color Spaces
HD Photo supports high dynamic range wide gamut color (HDR/WG) image content using the scRGB color...
Date: 10/25/2007
Updated HD Photo Plug-ins for Adobe® Photoshop® Software
We've just posted updated versions of the HD Photo Plug-ins for Adobe Photoshop Software to the...
Date: 08/17/2007
Industry Standardization for HD Photo
This is a pretty exciting day for all of us working on HD Photo. Today, the Joint Photographic...
Date: 07/31/2007
High Dynamic Range Editing
HD Photo supports a new paradigm for image editing. , Higher fidelity images can be stored in a high...
Date: 07/13/2007
WinHEC 2007 is Almost Here
I'll be attending WinHEC again this year, with multiple sessions on HD Photo. WinHEC 2007 takes...
Date: 05/08/2007
Expression Design Includes HD Photo Support
The Beta 2 version of Microsoft® Expression® Design was recently released with full support for...
Date: 03/27/2007
Photoshop Modes and HD Photo Pixel Formats
A Mode by Any other Name So, as reported previously, we now have released a beta of the Windows HD...
Date: 03/23/2007
Microsoft Officially Announces HD Photo
Didn't we already do that? Regular readers of my blog (which is a tad oxymoronic, since it appears I...
Date: 03/11/2007
Photosynth
Give it a Whirl By now you may have already heard of and played with Photosynth, a new Technology...
Date: 11/20/2006
Introducing HD Photo
A New Name and a New License No, it's not another file format. We have re-christened Windows Media...
Date: 11/17/2006
Managed Code Interfaces
Windows Vista and .NET Framework 3.0 programmers can access the HD Photo codec from managed code....
Date: 10/20/2006
Future Imaging 6Sight Conference
The Future Imaging 6Sight Conference takes place in Monterey California next week - October 24th and...
Date: 10/20/2006
Traveling Again
I'll be traveling to the Pacific Rim next week (8/19-8/25), visiting several of our partners Taiwan...
Date: 08/15/2006
WinHEC 2006 Slide Deck Posted
The PowerPoint slide deck from my presentation on Windows Media Photo at WinHEC 2006 is now posted...
Date: 07/05/2006
WIC Documentation
Can you believe it? A short blog entry! The original URL I provided (in my welcome blog post) for...
Date: 07/05/2006
Encoding Windows Media Photo Files - Part 1: DPK Tools
This is the first installment of a series of blogs on creating Windows Media Photo files. This...
Date: 07/05/2006
Licensing Details are Published
Ok, I know I said my next blog post would be on creating Windows Media Photo files. I am working on...
Date: 06/30/2006
Pixel Formats (Part 2: Fixed Point and Floating Point)
This is the second part of a discussion of the pixel formats supported by Windows Media Photo. I...
Date: 06/21/2006
Pixel Formats (Part 1: Unsigned Integers)
This is the first installment of what I plan to be an ongoing series of personal technical notes...
Date: 06/19/2006
Windows Media Photo Presentations this Month
Hello again, I’ll be speaking about Windows Media Photo at a couple upcoming events this month. Here...
Date: 06/12/2006
DPK 1.0 RC is Available
Hello everyone, I’m excited to announce that the Windows Media Photo Device Porting Kit (DPK) 1.0...
Date: 06/12/2006
Welcome!
I'm Bill Crow, the Program Manager for Windows Media Photo at Microsoft. The purpose of this blog is...
Date: 06/08/2006