Digital Photo Editing, Painting
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Key Image Enhancement & Productivity Features

Importing and Exporting File Types

File format is the specific format in which an image file is saved. The format is identified by the three letter extension at the end of the file name. Every file format has its own characteristics, advantages and disadvantages.
LEADViEW supports over 140 file formats! - all the common formats like tiff, gif, bmp, jpeg, png, etc., but LEADViEW also supports many you may have never heard of like cmp, tga, iff and the new jpeg2000. What does this mean to you? Well, no matter what format you receive an image, LEADViEW can open & save it. You'll have the most format choices, the best file compression options and you'll never again have an image you can't open.

It's Good to Know - General File Format Information:
Different image file formats are capable of holding different quantities of colors. Each file format will have a reference to the number of "bits per pixel" that the format is capable of supporting. The higher the bits per pixel, the sharper and more vivid the image will appear, and also the larger the image file size will be. You will want to select different formats in which to save your images based on how the image will be transported, viewed and saved. LEADViEW automatically optimizes your image to look it's best in any bits per pixel you choose!

1 bit per pixel refers to an image with 2 colors.
4 bits per pixel refers to an image with up to 16 colors.
8 bits per pixel refers to an image with up to 256 colors.
16 bits per pixel refers to an image with up to 32,768 colors.
24 bits per pixel refers to an image with up to 16,777,216 colors.