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Microsoft offers beta HD Photo plugins for Photoshop
You may recall at the start of the month that MIcrosoft had achieved some recognition of its HD Photo specification, something that has raised eyebrows amongst those of us who don't use WIndows as our Operating System. Much to its credit, however, Microsoft does seem to be working hard to ensure that the format is cross platform, and that patents are freely licenced to ensure the format is adopted. Today sees another step in the pushing of HD Photo, with Microsoft releasing beta (pre-release) versions of HD Photo plugins for Adobe Photoshop CS2 and CS3. Whilst HD Photo is far from prevalent at the moment, if you want to experiment with the format, or a burning desire to work with it, these new plugins will come in handy.The beta release of the plugins are available for both Windows and Macs, and expires after December 31st 2007.
[Via MacWorld UK]

There are few file formats ubiquitous as JPEG (ASCII text comes to mind). It's almost universally compatible, available in every image handling application you could possibly want to use and, it works swimmingly well. Who could possibly want to change all that? Microsoft, that's who.
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