I have been given digital images with an "img" extension. Which camera uses this extension and what software/Photoshop plug-in will I need in order to view it?

Thanks!

-- Bob Temple (templeb@iserv.net), March 02, 1999

Answers

Boy, that's one on me: The only suggestions I'd have would be to try a package like CompuPic (www.photodex.com) or Thumbs Plus (forget the URL, but there'll be a link in either the current or last month's news page on this site. I think that both these packages can read a very wide range of file formats. The king of file formats (on the Mac) is deBabelizer. It's expensive, and has a pretty opaque interface, but there's not much that it can't read.

-- Dave Etchells (web@imaging-resource.com), March 09, 1999.

Your file could be from a Mac user that has no idea what an extention is or does does. I've seen them put everything under the sun on the end of a file. Try opening it in a text editing program like Word as text only. If the file opens within the first paragraph it should contain information about the creator. Do not save the file when you close it!

-- Don Edgar (deldon@teleport.com), March 15, 1999.

That .IMG format sounded familiar so I did some digging around. According to some links I found, .img format is a bitmap graphics file format produced by Ventura Publisher and GEM Paint. GEM paint was a graphics paint type program that ran under the GEM operating system which was a Windows-like operating system designed to run on a multitude of platforms like Atari, Commodore, IBM and Apple back in the 1980's. I think GEM is still around, you might search for web links if you're interested. I never had occasion to use it , but Ventura Publisher was a document publishing program that enjoyed some popularity before Adobe and a lot of the windows publishing programs hit the market. I think it's still sold as discount software at bargain basement prices and might even have a current version...

Just for reference I'd like to share a couple of resources with you:

www.webopaedia.com - a web encyclopedia, a great place to look for general terms and info that search engines may not turn up.

http://www-f.rrz.uni-koeln.de/themen/Graphik/ImageProcessing/fileext.h tml - a link to a list of file extensions found on the above resource

I hope the above helps.

-- Gerald Payne (gmp@francorp.francomm.com), March 15, 1999.