XGA

What Does XGA Mean When Talking About Photography? XGA or ‘Extended Graphics Array’ refers to a video display mode with a resolution of 1024 x 768 in 256 colors. XGA superseded SVGA (800 x 600) in 2002 becoming the standard output resolution of most home computing graphics interfaces. As such many websites were subsequently optimised for the new standard. In photography terms XGA equates to 0.79MP, which doesn’t seem like much compared to todays technology, but during the mid 2000s it was considered to be a high resolution for a video monitoring device. If you were a pioneering digital photographer …

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XMP

What Is an XMP File and How Is It Used in Photography? In photography, specifically in post-processing and editing, XMP Data is the data standard for Adobe’s Extensible Metadata Platform. In XMP enabled applications photographers and editors are able to embed metadata directly into popular image file formats such as JPEG files. Using XMP means that so-called ‘sidecar’ metadata files are no longer required, vastly simplifying the file organization and storage workflow for photographers. Files containing XMP data are still able to be opened and edited in applications that do not support XMP data, the metadata contained within the file however …

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