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Scanning Photos Why Not to JPG

When you scan photographs, your scanner software may provide options on what file format to use when storing the graphics

(A file format is the way, or algorithm, that the bits that make up a picture are organized).

You may be given options for TIF, BMP or PNG images as well as JPG,

Select either the TIF, PNG, or BMP format.

Why? :‐ JPG images loose definition as they are compressed. Images stored in this format will take up less hard drive space than TIF images, but the image quality will invariably not be quite as high as you expect.

Even if you donʹt notice any visible difference in quality between images stored in this format, and an uncompressed image in TIF format, if you print a picture from a JPG image, you may start to see smears or blurs.

Also, if you plan to manipulate the image and re‐save it as a JPG again, you will usually see some degradation.

TIF, PNG, and BMP images, on the other hand, take up much more space on your hard disk,

However, they more faithfully reproduce the original photographs.

And remember ‐ if image size is a concern, you can always change TIF, PNG, or BMP images to JPG,s later.