Scanning The Horizon

He says that CIELab and high-capacity RGB files are able to save almost all of the information contained in a scanned image. This has opened the door for a new field—image archiving. Companies now archive pictures for many purposes, from reuse to possible sale.

"Anyone that has [archived] images has realized that they are sitting on a bank account," Gillooly reports. "People are willing to pay for pictures if they can get them easily."