Just OPENING any file will NOT reduce the quality unless you do a SAVE.
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 == From: Priscilla Glasow [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, April 29, 2013 7:04 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] GraphicsMagick 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 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
