Originally posted by XanthosNZWell whatever the results it's all said and done now. Hopefully we never messed things up too much. My first time printing photos from digital images.
Well you never know, I've seen some people gain some rather awful compression artifacts from using Paint to crop and resize images.
Originally posted by mokkoI am no expert but I tend to pull them into photoshop and keep the psd's. From there you have all the options you need.
Well whatever the results it's all said and done now. Hopefully we never messed things up too much. My first time printing photos from digital images.
1000's of psd's will chew up space though.
In case you actually wanted a serious answer.
If you have the option on your camera to save as a "tif" then you have a completely accurate rendition of the image when you copy it to your hard drive. However, as these Tiff files are big you get fewer shots before your card runs out of space.
jpeg files are files of compressed image data and are "lossy" i.e. they lose information and can produce unwanted artifacts in your image. They are also only 8 bit and therefore can produce weird colour bands. Each time you open a jpeg in some software and save it again you are likely to increase the degradation in the image.
To sum up, if the camera shot the files as jpegs, then convert them to tiff. Each time you want to edit the shot, edit the tiff but save it as a jpeg of high quality or a new tiff file and print the result. If you want to take serious pictures, make sure the camera shoots "tif" or raw from the start.
Forget about all the other formats.
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