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History of High Efficiency Image File Format
Last update 2021-10-03 16:06:49 
Creation date 2020-09-21 21:03:31 
Creation date 2020-09-21 21:03:31 - CMYK support (for print)
- no
- Maximum bit depth
- 8-bit (HEIC)
up to 16-bit (HEIX) - Commonly used for
- Apple iPhone photos
Posted 2021-10-03 10:53:07 by _wb_- Posted 2020-09-21 21:42:55 by Alexis
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- Description
- High Efficiency Image File Format is a container format developed by the Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG). The format has several variants and supports individual or sequences of images.
- Developed by
- MPEG
- Animation support
- yes
- Lossless
- yes Lossless and lossy
- Transparency support
- yes
- Layers support
- no
- HDR
- yes
- Internet Explorer
- no
- Firefox
- no
- Opera
- no
- Safari
- no
- Google Chrome
- - AVIF
- Cons
- Limited support yet
Posted 2020-09-21 21:15:45 by Alexis -
- Mode
- 70
- Name
- High Efficiency Image File Format
- Viewer
- public
- Editor
- public
- Category
- practical
- Short name
- HEIF
- Wikipedia
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Efficiency_Image_File_Format
- File extensions
- .heif .heifs
Posted 2020-09-21 21:03:31 by Alexis
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