best picture format

[xaqintosh]

which picture format has the best quality?

 

[Matrix Agent]

I'm going to guess TIFF.

 

[uoba]

Or a straight Photoshop file!

 

[xaqintosh]

Ok, thanks

 

[Nummi_G4]

Yes... TIFF is the best format overall. And for web... I would go with JPEG or PING. But some browsers have a problem with ping files.

 

[BlingBling 3k12]

like IE for Windows




There was a website that used PNG files... damn it looked crappy... then they explained... so i felt ****ed off...

 

[HyperLiteG4]

I'd say TIFF is the best too. That's what I use for all my publishing files. It's nice because it lets you keep a very nice image and compress it as well. Other than that, I use the Photoshop format if there are any layers, and the PICT format if I want others to see the image but keep it lossless (uncompressed). And for web stuff, I'd say JPEG or GIF, depending on what it's for....

just my $0.02

 

[chemistry_geek]

TIFF is a LOSSLESS image format. This explains why if you scan them in from a scanner, they are HUGE. TIFF is your best option for archiving old family photos to a CD because none of the image data is lost in TIFF format (unlike JPEG).

I read somewhere in the not too distant past that JPEG images are going to have an additional compression scheme and going to have the extension of *.JP2 (for JPEG 2000), or something like that.