Now that you’ve owned a digital camera for a while, chances are your collection of digital photographs is growing to the point where they’re becoming completely unmanageable. If you find yourself drowning in a sea of digital images and you just can’t remember where you stored that picture of cousin Betty at the beach that you took on your vacation two years ago, you might want to consider the benefits of tagging.
A tag is nothing more than a keyword that describes the image to which it is attached. And the premise behind tagging is a simple one: The more tags you assign to an image, the better the chances are of finding it. It turns out that there are a number of standards out there that attempt to regulate many of the different characteristics associated to digital images.
Some of the standards apply to compression. For example, the JPEG standard allows for the reduction of digital information that represents the image we see. By eliminating a certain amount of redundancy that’s inherent in a raw digital image, the physical size of that file will be substantially smaller.
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