Thanks, Mark ... helpful and to the point. Mark Cassino wrote:
> I'd guess that the lab uses BMP because it is the native image for Windows, > and they probably figure that most of their customers are windows users and > can open BMP files. It's the lowest common denominator. > > What you gain with TIFF is the ability to color manage - if you add a color > profile and work on a profiled system, in theory the TIFF will look the > same on any other profiled system. At least more the same. TIFF's also > give you the ability to work with 16 bits of data per channel and they are > more portable between systems. > > From a practical perspective, the BMP should be fine. My first scanner > defaulted to saving BMP files, and I used those files with no ill > effects. I'd pull them into Photoshop (or back in those days, Corel > Photopaint), do my adjustments, and save them as TIFF's. They worked fine.
