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Hey derricksrandomview, I think we might be talking about different HDRs. 🙂 The "HDR" that probably most everyone has heard about is the trick where you shoot three or more images and then combine them (often with really ugly results)--its a way to shrink the range of tones on a scene with a large range of tones into the range allowed by the digital file. The "new" HDR involves using all of that highlight data in a raw file--up to four additional stops!--that you don't normally see and to display it using the increased brightness range capabilities of modern screens (i.e. all modern iPhones, all M4 Macs, the new M4 iPad, many/most large screen OLED TVs, etc.). The most promising file format is AVIF which uses a more modern compression technology than JPEG (and is already supported by Opera and Chrome and, I think next month, Safari)--this is the format I mentioned that Dreamhost/Wordpress now supports. I ran a test, exporting a 4k-sized HDR image and it runs 9.4 MB, so not that big, and that's a high-resolution file--probably far bigger than anything I would actually post. A 2000-pixel-on-long-edge runs 2.7 MB on that same image. A 1000 pixel wide version runs 774 KB. Edit: Those numbers are at 100% image quality, btw. If I use 60% image quality that 2000-pixel size from from 2.7 MB to 651 KB. For readers new to this "new" HDR, I made a comparison video--to see it you must be on an HDR screen. https://www.abiggercamera.com/2024/08/sdr-and-hdr-comparison-video/

Hello, Is there any sense if Squarespace will soon support HDR images? If you aren't familiar with HDR still images, they are regular images with a whole lot more in the highlight range than ordinary images. They are incredible. You need an HDR image file (iPhones have been shooting HDR images since iPhone 11, I think, and all RAW files from cameras are HDR images), an HDR screen (at this point almost all iPhones have HDR screens, all M-Series MacBook Pros have great HDR screens, many TVs are HDR, etc), and some way to view them online (Opera and Chrome already support HDR, Safari is said to be adding this with the new update in three weeks and WordPress has supported HDR since version 6.5--my ISP, Dreamhost, updated my blog site to support HDR just today). I'm hoping, as my photo portfolio site is on Squarespace, that they will support AVIF (the best of the new HDR formats, but anything is better than nothing!) files very soon. Does anyone know anything?

Hey Creedon, Thanks--it seem so obvious now but not at all obvious to me without help! Thanks! --Darin

Site URL: http://www.darinboville.com Click on "(Private)", password is "private" Any ideas on why my accordion icons and dividers are invisible? Still invisible on Safari, Firefox, Opera, all current versions. Also tried iPhone Safari. --Darin