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I am sort of new at this stuff (playing around with Photoshop) and am looking for some advice.
I am scanning & saving family photos using photoshop with the idea of having everything saved in a digital archive and possibly printing off some of the images down the road. I have noticed that saving a file in the TIFF format leaves me with a very large file (8MB typically) whereas saving in jpeg at the 10 setting (around 300 dpi) results in a file of around 2 MB. I can also save a file as a TIFF and then have a choice of compressing it with a jpeg option which will bring it in at around a 1.2 MB size. Now I am getting really confused!
I want to save the files at a high enough quality that they could be printed (5X7 or 8X10) with good resolution and at the same time keeping file size down.
Which way do I go???
I am scanning & saving family photos using photoshop with the idea of having everything saved in a digital archive and possibly printing off some of the images down the road. I have noticed that saving a file in the TIFF format leaves me with a very large file (8MB typically) whereas saving in jpeg at the 10 setting (around 300 dpi) results in a file of around 2 MB. I can also save a file as a TIFF and then have a choice of compressing it with a jpeg option which will bring it in at around a 1.2 MB size. Now I am getting really confused!
I want to save the files at a high enough quality that they could be printed (5X7 or 8X10) with good resolution and at the same time keeping file size down.
Which way do I go???