Doug Franklin writes: > Well, there are a number of technical reasons, but if you're not > distributing the images, probably not any practical ones. Technically, > TIFF will be more widely supported and it supports a much larger > variety of image types than BMP.
It sure can. You can even use compression within the TIFF file. In Photoshop if you save as a compressed .tif you'll end up with a file about half the original size (the compression is lossless). The tif file can also contain heaps of information about the file itself, such as the dpi. The downside of using TIFF is that many if not most TIFF readers don't support the standard fully (which you touched on in your post). This is fine if you don't use too many of the features but sometimes you'll come across an oddball file that you can't load in some programs. Cheers, - Dave David A. Mann, B.E. (Elec) http://www.digistar.com/~dmann/ "Why is it that if an adult behaves like a child they lock him up, while children are allowed to run free on the streets?" -- Garfield - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
