Microsoft HD Photo plug-in grab fresh test tips _ Common Tools

Microsoft has released a plugin that will allow Adobe Photoshop to support the "HD Photo" static picture format to read and save Plug-ins, Neowin website Emil Protalinski download installed this plugin, and use this plugin to intercept some of the pictures and the JPG and PNG format made a comparison.
Let Emil Protalinski slightly surprised that the use of Photoshop to save WDP (HD Photo has been integrated in Windows Vista, but in which the early name "Windows Media Photo", hereinafter referred to as WDP) Format file, photoshop Pop-up settings menu is very informative.

Emil Protalinski First intercepted a Neowin website logo, using Photoshop to save for JPG/PNG/WDP three formats, all options are default settings. Emil Protalinski uses Vista's own Windows Photo Gallery program to open three of pictures for comparison, Emil Protalinski that they could not distinguish between three pictures using the unaided eye. The PNG, JPG, and WDP three file formats are 38.6KB, 34.4KB, and 36.6KB, respectively, under the default settings.
The next Emil Protalinski experiment was to save a 58.0KB png file as the best quality jpg and WDP format with Photoshop, but before finding the difference in the three-form picture, Emil Protalinski claims that the eyes have been dazzled by complex color patches. The only discovery is that in lossless mode, the 8.74MB of the WDP format is nearly three times times larger than the 2.67MB capacity of JPG files.
After comparing the default and best settings two modes, the next project is a comparison of the lowest quality settings. In this comparison, WDP (19.6KB) than JPG (24.9KB) slightly better, but also seen from the picture is very clear, WDP format of the Microsoft logo has been appalling, PNG with 5.35KB and good quality is undoubtedly the victory of this comparison.
Finally, Emil Protalinski opened a jpg picture of Bill Gates (33.4KB), as far as possible in Photoshop to adjust to the size of the WDP (29.0KB) format file, you can see the difference between the two pictures?
Conclusion: From the file size, the WDP format seems more flexible than JPG, and WDP provides more adjustment options in Photoshop, but that doesn't mean WDP is a more advanced picture format. But at least WDP is officially in the field, though it is still a long way to go.
Attached: WDP Photoshop plugin Microsoft official download page
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=b157ca0f-083f-4957-9aa3-4da1de3dc20b&DisplayLang=en