AVIF (AV1 Image File, derived from the AV1 video codec) files are relatively new compared to more well-known types such as GIFs, JPEGs, or PNGs, but support for them has been steadily growing. Many of ...

If you’ve tried to save an image off the web recently, there’s a chance it’s appeared in a strange new format. The AVIF format is growing in popularity online—and there’s every chance that it could ...

There's a lot to learn about image files on the command line, from verifying file format to finding out where and when photos were taken and maybe even getting an unusual view of what they look like.

Simply put, making an ISO image of a hard drive is to create a 1-to-1 backup copy that consists of a .iso file. Nowadays, as computing technology develops, users have many ways to image a hard drive ...

PowerShell recovery scripts using WBAdmin no longer work in Windows 11, but VHDX mounting offers a manual workaround for restoring files. I recently wrote an article in which I walked you through the ...

I got to wondering today, if there was any image format, maybe binary black/white, or greyscale, or even color, that is just raw pixels, with no metadata. Even BMP, while it has pretty minimal ...

Any file on a computer is basically reduced to a binary code which in turn could be written as a text code. An image file is no exception to this. Since an image file has a form in a text code, you ...