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Whats the difference between TIFF and other qualities
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http://digitalmemoriesonline.net/scan/output/jpeg_vs_tiff.htm
JPEG is a lossy compression, TIFF is not (and the rest can be seen in quotes below, but I was spreading false information).
JPEG is a lossy compression, TIFF is not (and the rest can be seen in quotes below, but I was spreading false information).
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Normal quality is probably a compressed, possibly a lower-res JPG... JPGs are compressed in a lossy fashion, throwing away data according to an algorithm. TIFFs, assuming they're not compressed with LZW compression which is lossless, contains all the data in the image.
Take a picture of the same scene with both settings, then take a close look at them at 400% on a display. The TIFF should look considerably better.
Incidentally, until InDesign came along with its native Photoshop file handling, the TIFF was, and still mostly is, the preferred file format for rasterised images used in the production of print-ready artwork.
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Take a picture of the same scene with both settings, then take a close look at them at 400% on a display. The TIFF should look considerably better.
Incidentally, until InDesign came along with its native Photoshop file handling, the TIFF was, and still mostly is, the preferred file format for rasterised images used in the production of print-ready artwork.
Incorrect.
In what way?
I used this graphic to extrapolate:
from http://photo.net/learn/raw/
Does that mean JPEGs can store more than 8 bit per channel or that TIFFs aren't 16 bit per channel or ...?
It means that jpgs can only store 8 bit per color channel while tiffs can store either 8 or 16 bit per channel.
No. TIFFs aren't automatically 16 bit, although they can be... most are usually 8 bit and I'd bet the TIFFs that come out of the OPs camera are just your plain old vanilla 8 bit kind. So what I'm saying is that TIFFs are not automatically 16 bit.
16 bit TIFFs are comparatively rare outside photography, by the way. Might work on an image in 16 bit to minimise any posterisation in Photoshop, but will always convert to 8 bit after my CMYK conversion.