Question for Photoshop Guru's

[hpkeeper]

Hi, I have a huge image that I don't want to lose the quality on, so I was going to use a .TIF
format to send this thing over the net to get printed... however....

The file remains huge if it's a .TIF... is there a middle ground where I can keep the image quality without the file size? and I don't want to turn it to a JPEG...

any suggestions?

 

[reboos]

zip or rar up the file.

 

[DBL]

sure, turn it into a JPEG. You realize you can control the quality of the JPG? What's the resolution of the image as well as the size you would like to print it out at?

 

[JonTom]

wow that worked better than I expected it would.

I took an uncompressed tif, rared it.

13,000KB is now 360KB!

 

[Anubis]

you call 13 megs huge?
last pic i sent to be printed at 20x30 was 700 MEGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! as a Tiff or PSD, i saved it as a PNG and it was like 70 megs, took FOREVER to upload, hell as a level 12 jpeg it was over 20 megs

 

[DBL]

Originally posted by: JonTom
wow that worked better than I expected it would.

I took an uncompressed tif, rared it.

13,000KB is now 360KB!

Sounds unlikely. What type of picture was this?

 

[reboos]

Originally posted by: DBL

Originally posted by: JonTom
wow that worked better than I expected it would.

I took an uncompressed tif, rared it.

13,000KB is now 360KB!

Sounds unlikely. What type of picture was this?

It could of been an image with very little color variations. Compression works better when more of the image is the same color.

 

[DBL]

Originally posted by: reboos
It could of been an image with very little color variations. Compression works better when more of the image is the same color.

That's why I asked. The more uniform the picture, the more heavily JPG will compress. However, the JPG artifacts will be more apparent. That's why JPG works great for a photograph but not very well for a logo.

 

[hpkeeper]

yeah, just for reference...

it's about 500MB