alternative to tiff

[William Storey II]

ok so it is my understanding that when saved a jpg loses some quality i
understand this but when i scann a picture in high resolution in a tiff it
over a 100 mb sometimes only a quarter of that but still very big is there a
format besides tiff that will save the quality and not take up so much spare
or if i were to compress a tiff with winace would that distort the picture?

 

[John Inzer]

ok so it is my understanding that when saved
a jpg loses some quality i understand this but
when i scann a picture in high resolution in a
tiff it over a 100 mb sometimes only a quarter
of that but still very big is there a format besides
tiff that will save the quality and not take up so
much spare or if i were to compress a tiff with
winace would that distort the picture?

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It's always good insurance to save unedited
copies of all your image files on external media.

Editing and resaving a high resolution .jpg file
will have some loss in quality but it's extremely
doubtful that the difference would be visible.
As an experiment...you could make a copy and
resave it several times and then compare the
results.

Personally, I find .png to be a good alternative
to .tif.

Here are some articles that may be useful to you:

Digital Image file Types Explained
http://tinyurl.com/7jyd

TIFF
http://www.scantips.com/basics9t.html

PNG
http://www.scantips.com/basics9p.html

JPEG
http://www.scantips.com/basics9j.html

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John Inzer
Picture It! MVP
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Picture It! Support Center
http://support.microsoft.com/?pr=pic

 

[gary_s_1946]

William

Think of your scan as if it were a photographic negative or slide. Saving
with a 'lossy compression' method like JPG is similar to cutting off a
portion of the emulsion you're sure you'll never need.

If you are concerned about disk space now, burn the large TIFF files to CDs
and only save smaller JPGs on your hard disk as reminders of the originals.
If you want to make a print, it could be worth while to retrieve the TIFF
image whereas if the image is detined for the web, the JPG may be just
dandy.

Gary G

 

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-----Original Message-----
ok so it is my understanding that when saved a jpg loses some quality i
understand this but when i scann a picture in high resolution in a tiff it
over a 100 mb sometimes only a quarter of that but still very big is there a
format besides tiff that will save the quality and not take up so much spare
or if i were to compress a tiff with winace would that distort the picture?
not any good ones that i have found.

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