Kevin wrote: I guess what I am trying to find is a balance between filesize and quality of print, I am printing on 8x12 and the lab that prints my photos simply convert the tiff images to jpeg before printing. They use Photoshop to do this and charge $5 for doing so.
My guess is to save as jpeg to begin with, do the color corrections in Photoshop and send them to the lab for printing. I would continue to save as a tiff or raw in the camera, convert to PSD (Photoshop's native file) do all of your corrections etc.in that, save the master in PSD and burn/send a jpeg copy to your photo finisher. As JPEG is a lossy format if you save or shoot in jpeg first, then manipulate, then save, you are loosing information. If you save, manipulate and save a few times the loss might be enough to noticeably degrade your image. Tiff and PSD are lossless, so they are better for saving master copies of. Then any copy from the master will have lost little if anything. Unless your lab has a very low file size limit, make your JPEG copies at the highest quality available. The file will be bigger but the info is compressed less. Butch Each man had only one genuine vocation - to find the way to himself. Hermann Hesse (Demian)
