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General => Other Discussion => Topic started by: blue-j on April 01, 2022, 01:33:42 AM

Title: Hex Inspector Recommendation? Educational materials?
Post by: blue-j on April 01, 2022, 01:33:42 AM
Can anyone recommend a solid Hex inspector/editor?  I'm using 0xED.app on macOS 11.6.5 currently.

How about a good resource for decoding raw file data?  Anyone know a good YouTube video or resource?

Thanks!

-J
Title: Re: Hex Inspector Recommendation? Educational materials?
Post by: Phil Harvey on April 01, 2022, 07:43:42 AM
What type of raw file?

- Phil
Title: Re: Hex Inspector Recommendation? Educational materials?
Post by: blue-j on April 02, 2022, 03:06:25 PM
Photoshop.  Images.  Right now I am focusing on PSDs.
Title: Re: Hex Inspector Recommendation? Educational materials?
Post by: Phil Harvey on April 02, 2022, 07:14:57 PM
Adobe has made the PSD documentation public, but I assume you already have this.

Further than that, ExifTool won't help much because the -htmlDump option doesn't help with PSD files.

- Phil
Title: Re: Hex Inspector Recommendation? Educational materials?
Post by: blue-j on April 03, 2022, 03:55:06 PM
What do you use?
Title: Re: Hex Inspector Recommendation? Educational materials?
Post by: Phil Harvey on April 03, 2022, 09:34:19 PM
I use ExifTool for analyzing some types of images (-htmlDump for TIFF-based images, and -v3 for other formats), and a hex dump script that I wrote for displaying other binary files, and a suite of other scripts I wrote for editing them.

- Phil
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