Print File Format

Hi Folks
I am about to have a lot of images printed and I need to put
them onto disk for the Lab, my question is should I keep them
as Tiff or is it OK to convert them to Jpeg, would I lose any
quality in doing so. I have over 100 images at about 20 MB
so what do you folk think, I will still keep my original Tiff
files so would it be right to do this quality is important as
they are Wedding Photos.
Thanks
Royboy

Some labs will only accept JPGs, but TIF may be ok. For most prints, a single conversion to JPG (high quality setting) is perfectly acceptable. Make sure you find out what size, format, colorspace they need, and whether you should save With Profile or not. Even if you save all as TIFs, they should all fit on just 4 CDs.

Chris

eric roy 1 said:

Hi Folks
I am about to have a lot of images printed and I need to put
them onto disk for the Lab, my question is should I keep them
as Tiff or is it OK to convert them to Jpeg, would I lose any
quality in doing so. I have over 100 images at about 20 MB
so what do you folk think, I will still keep my original Tiff
files so would it be right to do this quality is important as
they are Wedding Photos.
Thanks
Royboy

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300 ppi jpegs.
'Save as' best quality jpeg, 'baseline standard' .

It's best if you adjust 'levels' etc. correctly on each image.
(So that when their software applies an 'auto-levels' adjustment, it will
do the least damage.)

Sharpen only mildly. The biggest amature mistake is over-sharpening.
(Also because, their software might have some degree of built-in sharpening)

Also, most photofinishers only read filenames 8 spaces to the left of the
'dot' jpeg suffix. Keep your filenames to only 8 digits.

Do a test run.
Burn 5 images on a CD, and let them print them.
See if their color matches your taste.

i had 67 pictures of my new baby developed @ jessops

the images were originally taken in RAW format, and i converted them tiff to work on, and then to jpeg for the prints. there are no noticable artifacts from the jpeg compression in any of the pictures.. (had some printed @ 12x8)

tiff and eps used to be the standard file formats for print work, but with high quality jpeg these days unless your going to be editing the picture over and over, jpeg is the way to go

i usually save my pictures as tiff and jpeg, so if i ever need to edit the image i can refer to the tiff, do the editing and then it again save as a jpeg