An Image is a numeric representation (normally it is binary) of a two-dimensional image. Depending on whether the image resolution is fixed (non changeable), it may be of vector or raster type. Without qualifications, the term “image” usually refers to raster images also called bitmap images.

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What are Indexed Colorspaces?

What are Indexed Colorspaces? Indexed Colorspaces store a list of the colors used and reference that list to get the color of each pixel,...
Mark Stephens
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Image Optimisation: What PNGQuant is and why you should…

What is PNGQuant? PNGQuant is a free to use, open source (available under a BSD-like license) command line utility and library for converting PNG...
Leon Atherton
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How do Filter and DecodeParms Objects change a PDF…

One of the hardest things I found to get to grips with on the PDF File format was using filters and DecodeParams together. So...
Mark Stephens
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How to convert from BufferedImage to JavaFX 2.2 Image

Until recently, if you wanted to load a BufferedImage in JavaFX you were out of luck – the only way to do it was...
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How to draw SVG on HTML 5 Canvas and…

One of the limitations of shapes in HTML 5 canvas is that only one fill rule is supported, which can lead to shapes not...
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Replacing the deprecated Java JPEG classes for Java 7

In the early days of Java, Sun produced a really handy set of classes to handle JPEG images. These included some really nifty little...
Mark Stephens
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