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I was told that when burning pictures onto a disk to print off that I should be saving them all as bitmap files as I'll get a better quality of picture. Is that true?

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It's up to you. Bitmaps aren't "lossy" compressed so they're larger and take up more space.

You should be more concerned with which discs you choose to store them on.


Additional: There is a lot more to this and so you'll need to PM me for all the facts etc.

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Haha bitmaps.

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Originally posted by Bowmann
It's up to you. Bitmaps aren't compressed so they're larger and take up more space.
If not mistaken, GIF and JPEG examples of compressed bitmaps.
In the printing industry, most photographic work are saved as EPS (I believe, hell, I have been out of this part of the world for very long now...)

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Originally posted by Aiko
If not mistaken, GIF and JPEG examples of compressed bitmaps.
In the printing industry, most photographic work are saved as EPS (I believe, hell, I have been out of this part of the world for very long now...)
I just want to know which is the best format for saving pictures onto a disk to be printed off. I've been told that certain formats produce better quality of pictures when printed.

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EPS, is what I say. No JPEG.

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Nothing bad will happen if you have them as jpegs as long as you save them as highest quality not using MSPaint.

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If they're pictures taken with a digital camera, they'll probably be JPEGs to start with. Nothing will be gained from converting them to bitmaps. They should just be put onto CD as they are.

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Originally posted by mokko
I just want to know which is the best format for saving pictures onto a disk to be printed off. I've been told that certain formats produce better quality of pictures when printed.
Also, the images that come off a camera are usually very large, like 2500x2000 near abouts. Images converted for sharing might be 1200x or even 1024x in size. They won't print as well as the large image.

Converting to Jpeg will save size, these images would be HUGE as a bitmap.

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Originally posted by Bowmann
If they're pictures taken with a digital camera, they'll probably be JPEGs to start with. Nothing will be gained from converting them to bitmaps. They should just be put onto CD as they are.
Yup. The key bit of information here is that JPEG compression is lossy. Once the image is compressed you've lost the information, and changing file types isn't going to fix this. So, if you want to be able to print good pictures don't set your camera to do a large amount of compression--go for minimal compression which means large files sizes and very few pictures before your camera runs out of memory. 🙁

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Originally posted by XanthosNZ
Nothing bad will happen if you have them as jpegs as long as you save them as highest quality not using MSPaint.
Argh I agree, go with teh PS.

EDIT: The argh is as a pirate would say it NOT because Im agreeing with Xanthos.

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Originally posted by leisurelysloth
Yup. The key bit of information here is that JPEG compression is lossy. Once the image is compressed you've lost the information, and changing file types isn't going to fix this. So, if you want to be able to print good pictures don't set your camera to do a large amount of compression--go for minimal compression which means large files sizes and very few pictures before your camera runs out of memory. 🙁
Right, that's the large pictures. Keep them same size. They start as jpgs, so compression has little to do with going from a bitmap to jpeg. It's the size of the image, not the extension gif jpg pcx iff bmp etc

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Originally posted by leisurelysloth
🙁
You're supposed to smile and say 'Cheese!'

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Originally posted by Bowmann
You're supposed to smile and say 'Cheese!'
Apparantely, his cheese was a smelly French one...

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Originally posted by Phlabibit
Right, that's the large pictures. Keep them same size. They start as jpgs, so compression has little to do with going from a bitmap to jpeg. It's the size of the image, not the extension gif jpg pcx iff bmp etc

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I was told that it's not the size of the image but what you do with it. Was I lied to?