Microsoft HD Photo Plug-ins for Photoshop are Released

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hd_Photo

"HD Photo has been announced by Microsoft and the Joint Photographic
Experts Group to be under consideration for a JPEG standard, tentatively
titled JPEG XR.

"The HD Photo bitstream specification claims that "HD Photo offers image
quality comparable to JPEG-2000 with computational and memory
performance more closely comparable to JPEG", that it "delivers a lossy
compressed image of better perceptive quality than JPEG at less than
half the file size", and that "lossless compressed images ? are
typically 2.5 times smaller than the original uncompressed data".


http://blogs.msdn.com/billcrow/archive/2007/12/06/hd-photo-plug-ins-for-photoshop-are-released.aspx

"HD Photo plug-ins for Adobe® Photoshop® CS2 and CS3 have been
officially released for both Windows and OSX. They're available now from
the Microsoft Download Center. [Links on this webpage]

"The Windows version is supported on Windows XP and Windows Vista, and
works with Photoshop CS2 and CS3. While not officially supported, it
will also work with limited features with older versions of Photoshop
and with Photoshop Elements. The included README file has details.


For PSE6, I installed it to
C:\Program Files\Adobe\Photoshop Elements 6.0\Plug-Ins\HD Photo Plugin
for Adobe Photoshop\
It works properly, as far as I can tell, for both Opening and Saving.
File size and processing speed seem consistent with the claims for the
format.

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