Thank you for the inputs, everyone. I think I was concerned with loss of quality each time you OPEN a .jpg file, not just when you edit the file. I appreciate the insights, however, on good freeware photo editors/converters, as well as the problems that may be encountered with .tif files.
Best regards, Priscilla Glasow On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 12:00 PM, David Abernathy < [email protected]> wrote: > If the source file (Ancestry) is a jpg, then by saving it as a tiff will > NOT improve the quality. > Now that you have a file and it is a jpg, true each time you edit it you > MAY lose some quality, but how many times is one going to edit their files. > > Also note that MOST of these real large tiff files are also the source of > many problems when making reports and charts. > > Unless one is going to be printing out super large 11x17 or larger, then > you will not gain much using tiff files. > > Thanks, > David C Abernathy > Email disclaimers > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This message represents the official view of the voices in my head. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > http://www.SchmeckAbernathy.com > == All outgoing and incoming mail is scanned by F-Prot Antivirus == > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jenny M Benson [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Sunday, April 28, 2013 2:40 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] GraphicsMagick > > On 28/04/2013 01:29, Priscilla Glasow wrote: > > I'm trying to save files in TIFF format as recommended in the Legacy > > training videos. I can save files from Ancestry in JPG, but not TIFF. > > Whenever I download a file from Ancestry I download it straight into > IrfanView (free program, much recommended by many LUGgers but you can > choose to use whatever picture editing software you like) so that I can > crop it, straighten it or improve its clarity and then I save it. I could > choose to save them as Tiffs, but as it happens, practically all the > ex-Ancestry documents are saved as Jpegs because it is not necessary to > have a huge, high-quality file for a Census image or Parish Register image > which is never going to be edited again. I've just checked - I have 3,790 > Census images and at least 1,204 Parish Register images > already: would take a heck of a lot of hard drive space if they were all > Tiffs! > > > > -- > Jenny M Benson > > > > Legacy User Group guidelines: > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp > Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp > Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and > on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). > To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp > > > > > > Legacy User Group guidelines: > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp > Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp > Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and > on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). > To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp > > > Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
