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Zed

Joined: 20 Jan 2003 Location: Shakedown Street
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Posted: Mon Apr 26, 2004 6:25 am Post subject: Scanning file formats: BMP, JPG, TIF, PNG |
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I'm just setting up a scanner. The wizard is giving me the option to select from these file formats. What are the advantages of each? I'm pretty clueless about this kind of thing at the moment. |
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The Lemon

Joined: 11 Jan 2003
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Posted: Mon Apr 26, 2004 6:28 am Post subject: |
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JPG - the whole world uses them. "lossy", which means there's some quality loss involved in the compression. Generally good quality though.
BMP - raw bitmap, usually uncompressed. Lossless, but MUCH larger than jpgs. Not practical for internet usage.
I usually save things as JPGs, with a high quality compression setting... best of all tradeoffs. |
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