I have to respectfully disagree, LZW is notorious for actually making TIFF
files BIGGER.
>>> md@xxxxxxxxxxxx 14:59:24 05/16/2001 >>>
On Wed, 16 May 2001, Scott Nelson wrote:
> Never resave a JPG! You should always work in a lossless format like
> uncompressed TIFF, making any corrections and resizing to that file and then
> save once and only once to JPG. JPG is a lossy format.
TIFF is a great choice for saving files that will be re-edited and you can
use compression with it as long as it's not lossy. Use either LZW compression
or run length encoding and your tiff files will be much smaller with no
side effects.
-mark
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