JPEG vs. TIFF

I always save as a .psd until I am ready to finish. As far as batching you can also search Mr. Photoshop for that. I think that was one of the questions he answered... Good luck...

Zeno, just keep saving the pics as TIFF. That´s the 100% sure way NOT to make the quality worse.

Actually saving as a .psd is the 100% way to make sure you don't experience any loss

Pank is right, but I was thinking that Zenotek could need to open the pics with some other prog than PS in the future....

He could save and work in psd (best me thinks) and when he needs to save a copy into tif (if he needs to work in a different prog.) ALso about the lzw comp, I've never used it. I was told not to (for print grafix - cd covers.) But other than that, I dont know what it does to the image. Depending on what you do with the images, you would not use the jpg's if you plan on having them printed professionally.
oh yeah. team photoshop rocks. hehe

Originally posted by Zray
A teensy bit OT, but... has anyone ever tested LWZ Compression when saving a tif to see if there is any degradation of the image?

The LZW compression algorithm isn't lossy so your pic should be safe.

About the JPEG vs TIFF thing...
The only time when you want your images as jpegs is when putting them on the web, because of the small file size/download time. If you plan to just store them, use BMPs, TIFFs, TGAs, all of them are lossless. Personally, I'd go for BMP.