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# Images
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An image is a visual representation of something.
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In the computer context it is a file with an extension like `png`, `jpg`, `gif` among others.
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This entry also features medicinal image and visual formats such as DICOM.
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## Clients
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- [sxiv](https://github.com/xyb3rt/sxiv) is an image viewer for [Linux'](/wiki/linux.md)
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[X window system](/wiki/linux/x_window_system.md).
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- [Weasis](https://github.com/nroduit/Weasis) is a cross-platform DICOM viewer.
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## Editing
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Editing images can be done by various image manipulation software.
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A popular cross-platform program for this is [GIMP](https://www.gimp.org/).
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A second cross-platform software suite for displaying, creating and editing (raster) images is
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[ImageMagick](/wiki/imagemagick.md).
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Another part of image manipulation is the upscaling of low resolution images.
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This can be done by the cross-platform program [upscayl](https://github.com/upscayl/upscayl).
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### Getting Metadata
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Using [MediaInfo](https://github.com/MediaArea/MediaInfo) metadata of a file can be obtained.
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A command for this looks like the following.
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In this the file to obtain metadata to is assumed to be `image.png`.
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```sh
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mediainfo image.png
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```
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