Canon EOS-1D X Mark III captures stills in HEIF format

[elGordo (Gord)]

I’m no expert on this, but the following may be interesting:

What does future HEIC in 6.4 support mean?

I want to confess that after researching HEIC support online, I still don’t know what this will mean for me in the future, an amateur using digiKam to catalogue and manage the thousands of JPG personal photos I have taken. My photo editing doesn’t usually go much beyond cropping, resizing, and the occasional exposure adjustment.

HEIF - new image container from the MPEG folks

https://nokiatech.github.io/heif/ Looks interesting, will it have any use?

Write to RAW (DNG, CRW etc) in Natron?

You cannot write a camera raw file in Natron, since Natron is not a camera. What exactly do you want to achieve that way? Do you want to re-apply the camera defects, re-mosaic the image, and then write it so that the next software thinks it comes directly from the camera? There’s no such thing in Natron, sorry. In the meantime, you can: get quasi-lossless compression with EXR using either dwaa or dwab write 16-bit PNGs write 10, 12 or 16-bit DPX write any image format mentionned in the docum…

GIMP AppImage (continuous integration)

A new version of the GIMP AppImage is available for download. The main difference with the previous ones is that it now enabled most of the optional GIMP features: Optional Features: Levin matting engine: yes Language selection: yes Vector icons: yes Dr. Mingw (Win32): no Relocatable bundle: no Default ICC directory: /usr/share/color/icc Debug console (Win32): no 32-bit DLL folder (Win32): no Detailed backtraces: yes Optio…