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Sunset (Original Post) George McGovern May 2024 OP
Exquisite! MLAA May 2024 #1
Thank You MLAA! George McGovern May 2024 #2
How are Shadow and KC doing? MLAA May 2024 #20
Mystical and lovely. Thank you. niyad May 2024 #3
You are welcome niyad. Thank You! George McGovern May 2024 #4
Oh thank you so much, my dear George! CaliforniaPeggy May 2024 #5
You're so welcome Peggy! Thank You! George McGovern May 2024 #14
Hi, George! Another poetic photo! usonian May 2024 #6
I never heard of an avif file. Grumpy Old Guy May 2024 #8
Beats me, but DU and my browser rendered it OK. usonian May 2024 #10
Now I know what it is... Grumpy Old Guy May 2024 #12
Check the Wikipedia article, if you can grasp all that. usonian May 2024 #13
Thanks usonian! The avif file was what appeared in post images. Used to be post images would George McGovern May 2024 #15
The avif rendered fine in my browser. usonian May 2024 #19
This is magnificent! It is rather spellbinding. Thank you. LoisB May 2024 #7
You are welcome LoisB! Thank You! George McGovern May 2024 #16
Very nice Old Crank May 2024 #9
Thank You Old Crank George McGovern May 2024 #17
So peaceful and beautiful. I love seeing these as soon as I log onto a day in the morning! Diamond_Dog May 2024 #11
Thank You Diamond_Dog! George McGovern May 2024 #18
I love the streaks of color among the dark clouds brer cat May 2024 #21

CaliforniaPeggy

(152,049 posts)
5. Oh thank you so much, my dear George!
Wed May 22, 2024, 11:34 PM
May 2024

Lovely, subtle colors, they almost look like a watercolor.

You have a great eye!

usonian

(13,743 posts)
6. Hi, George! Another poetic photo!
Wed May 22, 2024, 11:41 PM
May 2024

Take if from the sunset guy! Great stuff.

My question is: How did you create an avif file?
I of course, dragged it to the computer file system so I could see it in the large, which it deserves.

Turns out is is an avif file, which my computer opens in GIMP by default, though it opens in Preview on the mac, which I can make the default for avif, but this may be the first avif file I ever ran into.

Not to be over-technical, but I'm the go-to guy for computer stuff. I just fixed a disappearing gmail account over the phone yesterday.

And I do love sunsets.
There's always a surprise inside!!!

Enjoy your posts.
And your avatar. 🦴

usonian

(13,743 posts)
10. Beats me, but DU and my browser rendered it OK.
Thu May 23, 2024, 01:34 AM
May 2024

I never noticed until I saved the picture to disk so as to view it larger than the browser window.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVIF

People keep coming up with formats with different kinds of compression.
Google invented webp, which is very compact, "because they could", but a lot of programs can't comprehend it.

Things like this just obsolete older hardware and software that can't be upgraded to catch up.

The image host (posting.cc) reports this:



And that's all I know.
Fine photo. I'm glad that it renders well.
Despite technology!

Grumpy Old Guy

(3,550 posts)
12. Now I know what it is...
Thu May 23, 2024, 11:19 AM
May 2024

At least I think I do.

Some of my Canon cameras can produce HEIF images. I think they are better than JPEGs when images are processed internally in the camera, but slightly larger. I've hardly ever used them.

I think AV1 files are related to HEIFs.

usonian

(13,743 posts)
13. Check the Wikipedia article, if you can grasp all that.
Thu May 23, 2024, 02:17 PM
May 2024

AVIF are a subset of HEIF oe HEIC.

I stick with jpg or png (usually larger) for sharing.

Hope this helped.

George McGovern

(6,047 posts)
15. Thanks usonian! The avif file was what appeared in post images. Used to be post images would
Thu May 23, 2024, 07:36 PM
May 2024

produce a jpg, but no more. I didn't know what to do until I tried erasing "avif" and typing in jpg and that reproduced the original image.

If you have any suggestions I'd love to hear 'em, but when post images stopped producing an avif instead of a jpg file I was stumped.

Did you ever get this image in jpg?

George

usonian

(13,743 posts)
19. The avif rendered fine in my browser.
Thu May 23, 2024, 07:48 PM
May 2024

"open image in new tab" goes to the hosting site and the download says avif file.

Dragging it to the computer gave me this: temp-Image7ow-Hf7-1.jpg.avif as a file.

If nobody had a problem, then they all must have really modern browsers that render it.

I am not one to argue with success! but my years of tracking down computer bugs always has me looking.

In this case, I wanted to see an enlarged image (more like the original) and the EXIF, which tells me the focal length and exposure, because I am always learning.

I uploaded the avif to imgbb.com and it returned a jpeg (you can check it)
"The Cloud" does things beyond our control!


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