The development of the Photo CD by Kodak1, in conjunction with N.V. Philips2 of the Netherlands, represents a quantum leap in electronic imaging. It provides consumer and commercial users alike the benefits of electronic manipulation with the high quality of silver halide imaging. Now, this technology is making its way into the Web. To date, still imagery on the Web has been limited to GIF and JPEG files. Recently, Kodak has added a new choice: Photo CD imaging, which can serve Photo CD images natively, without first converting them to some other format. Currently there are four leading application areas for Photo CD: printing and publishing, presentations and training, image archiving and distribution, and desktop color compound documents. This technology empowers Web authors to create pages which allow their audiences to interact with images by zooming, enlarging, cropping and rotating. Moreover, images will be able to be color managed.
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Dan Haim
<haim@vt.edu>
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