A new virus threatens to strike one of the Internet’s most common and useful activities: sharing family photos. The malicious program, the first to infect picture files, is not attacking computers.

"Our concern is more for what might be coming," says Vincent Gullotto, head antivirus researcher at McAfee Security, which produces top-selling antivirus software. "Potentially no file type could be ...

Windows 11/10 offers a built-in photo viewer and editor called the Photos app. It’s a OneDrive-integrated application that also includes editing, timeline, album creation, etc. If you cannot view your ...

There's a lot to learn about image files on the command line, from verifying file format to finding out where and when photos were taken and maybe even getting an unusual view of what they look like.

Professional photographers have long used the RAW format and editing software to turn image files into gorgeous pictures — and you can, too. By J. D. Biersdorfer J.D. Biersdorfer, whose first camera ...

Most of your digital photos are stored in the JPEG format (a.k.a. JPG), but when you download an image from the web these days, it may be using the more modern WebP format. It's likely you're also ...