But Adobe created an open-source digital negative format called DNG. A DNG is a RAW photo file but, because it is open-source, DNG is widely compatible with a number of different applications.

Adobe's DNG 1.4 image file format now accommodates transparent pixels, shown here with the checkerboard pattern, a key move in enabling stitched panoramic images. The company hopes to see software ...

I have been having a nightmare of a time trying to open DNG files in Aperture 3 (trial version) and I'm wondering whether to just give up on it in favour of Lightroom or Photoshop. The raw files ...

Adobe has included lossy compression in the recently announced 1.4 specification for its Digital Negative (DNG) RAW file format.

It uses the widely supported Adobe Digital Negative, or DNG, file format and contains information for 12-bit color and support for 14 stops of dynamic range.

Adobe’s new DNG file format is a nonproprietary extension of the raw-oriented TIFF-EP file format, itself an extension of the TIFF 6.0 format that Adobe maintains and controls (because TIFF was ...

Where JPEG image files are processed in-camera (exposure, white balance, contrast, etc.) and compressed, DNG files are not. They leave the camera as a raw, un-adjusted image file.

Now that Android and iOS are both capable of capturing and editing RAW DNG file formats, the workflow of photographers around the world can be a little more simplified through a unified file type ...

What’s more, as Sandofsky explains ProRAW is an extension of the open DNG file format, which should facilitate the implementation of support for ProRAW by third-party app makers: This may be ...