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09/11/2005 06:35:35 AM · #1
Howdy,

I have just begun to appreciate the advantages of shooting in RAW format.

What I am curious about now is how to save the converted image. How much difference is thier between saving a converted image as a JPG or a TIFF (both saved at their highest details setting).

I tend to give my images on disk as a JPG to customers, but would they get better quality prints from a TIFF image?

cheers

D
09/11/2005 06:49:28 AM · #2
Personally, I prefer to save my pictures as TIFFs after converting them with Bibble Pro. I think that not compressing them must keep a slightly better image quality. The problem with giving people TIFFs on a CD is that most places will not print straight from TIFFs and only from JPEGs.
This is my own opinion. Would be interested to know what everyone else thinks.
Dave
09/11/2005 08:10:06 AM · #3
If you save at very high quality in JPG, there will be virtually no perceivable difference in a print from that vs. a TIF file. The gotcha with JPG is that if you repeatedly open, edit, and re-save the JPG, it will deteriorate a little bit each time, since it is re-compressed every time it is re-saved.
If you're giving customers an electronic file, give them a JPG unless they ask for a TIFF. If you find that you re-edit a lot, use TIF as your storage format, and save to JPG only when preparing the CD/DVD for the customer.
09/11/2005 08:41:21 AM · #4
Does this make no real difference even with 16 bit tiffs?

(spot the uneducated whatnot)
09/11/2005 08:49:37 AM · #5
Unless your customers are doing large posters with the files the difference isn't noticeable, even at 16 bits.
09/11/2005 09:18:32 AM · #6
My workflow is like this:

Shoot Raw,
save as Tiff,
process, correct, crop, etc.
save as psd
save as jpg for distribution
Then you have the raw, an un-editided Tiff, an edited Photoshop file to make jpg's from.

Takes a bit of space though.
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