In computing we can find a large number of formats, both video and image and sound. Even though most of the files are in most popular formats, and it can be opened natively with any operating system, not all formats are. Previously on Windows News, we talked about the .webp and djvu format.
Now it is the turn of the jp2 format, a format derived from jpg, but which further reduces the space it occupies. This format is widely used on web pages, so all browsers allow us to open them without any problem. The problem is that the The browser is not an application that gives us versatility.
It does not give us versatility, not only because it only allows us to open images one by one, but at the same time, it does not allow us to perform any operation with it, either by resizing, exporting it to another format, enlarging or reducing the image ... In these cases, for not be natively compatible with Windows 10, once we are forced to download a third-party application in order to open them.
The free GIMP photo editor, it is a fantastic solution to be able edit and work with these types of files, even when it only allows us to open them one by one and not together. If you occasionally work with these types of files, GIMP is the best application we have at our disposal.
Pixillion Image Converter, free application that we can download from the Microsoft Store, enables us not only to quickly view images in this format, but also enables us convert them to any format, to be able to share them with other people.
The application is free for home use., so we must take this into account when installing and running it for the first time so that it does not ask us again and again to buy the respective license.
