Thursday, March 31, 2011

Digital Images and the File Format Options to Save Them - Part 2

File Format Matters
(image by photostock)
[This is the 2nd in a two-part series about digital image file formats.]

In our first look at file format options we explored the JPEG file format. A second common digital image file format is the Tagged Image File Format, also referred to as TIFF.

TIFF, identified by the *.tif extension, is a very stable file format that makes for better archiving or extensive photo editing. This is a result that TIFF images are an uncompressed file. Irregardless
of the number of times a TIFF is opened, edited, and re-saved, it won't experience the any loss of image quality...



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