#image
4 articles tagged “image”.
The 256-Colour Survivor: Why the GIF Refuses to Die (and Why It's So Big)
It shows 256 colours, barely compresses, and a five-second clip can be ten times bigger than the same MP4 — yet the GIF is everywhere. Inside the dithering, the patent war that created PNG, the 'JIF'
Why Your Photos Show Up Sideways: The Tiny Flag That Rotates Every Phone Picture
Your photo looks fine on your phone, then arrives sideways everywhere else. The culprit is one hidden number — the EXIF Orientation tag — and the clever, lazy trick phones use instead of actually turn
'Zoom… Enhance': Why You Can't Really Upscale a Photo (and What AI Actually Does)
The detective barks 'enhance' and a blur becomes a face. It's nonsense — and the reason why is a tour through pixels, interpolation, information theory, and the AI that fakes the trick convincingly en
How JPEG Quietly Throws Away Most of Your Photo (and Why You Never Notice)
Your phone photo was ten times bigger before it was saved — and most of that data was deliberately deleted. Here's the elegant mix of maths and psychology behind JPEG, what the quality slider really d