Uploading digital photos

[ronnie gauthier]

For the average use there is not much difference...except for one
thing,and it can make a great differnece in the final outcome.

TIFF is a loss-less format...JPG is not.
Graphics apps compress a jpg *everytime* it is saved. So if you import
from your cam as a jpg and them play around with it and resave it four
or five times...well...
Many a person has wondered why everything they try to do to fix a
graphic fails and in fact looks worse that before. So they go back to
the original and start all over again...fix...save...fix...save...shit
And some poor suckers dont even know enough to do their work on a copy
of the original. 

TIFF, OTOH, looks the same every time it is saved, no matter how many
times.

So, if you plan to fudge around to it to a TIFF then do the final save
as a jpg.


On Mon, 28 Oct 2002 16:36:16 -0500
Joel Hammer <Joel at HammersHome.com> wrote:

>Are the images recorded on the memory card as jpg's? Or, does the
>software convert them to jpg's when they are read? I do not have much
>experience with graphics, but, I have always thought of jpg's as a
>compromise.
>