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Images
An image is a visual representation of something.
In the computer context it is a file with an extension like png, jpg, gif among others.
This entry also features medicinal image and visual formats such as DICOM.
Clients
- sxiv is an image viewer for Linux' X window system.
- Weasis is a cross-platform DICOM viewer.
Editing
Editing images can be done by various image manipulation software. A popular cross-platform program for this is GIMP.
A second cross-platform software suite for displaying, creating and editing (raster) images is ImageMagick.
Another part of image manipulation is the upscaling of low resolution images. This can be done by the cross-platform program upscayl.
Getting Metadata
Using MediaInfo metadata of a file can be obtained.
A command for this looks like the following.
In this the file to obtain metadata to is assumed to be image.png.
mediainfo image.png