NikonView (comes with Nikon digicams) won’t open compressed tifs. NikonView is not the best viewer, but it opens faster than PS, has folder tree in the left pane, adjustable thumbnail size. Not very intuitive but the curve is small. But I digress.
BP (before Photoshop), I used Paint Shop Pro (they should charge $300 instead of $80 just to give Adobe a little heartburn). I didn’t know at the time that the hundreds of tifs I converted from jpeg were compressed; now, when I want to look at thumbnails, I have to use PSE or PS to resave the files as uncompressed.
Buy a bigger hard drive, use an NTFS operating system, and stop trying to save disk space.
160 GB for $129 US.
"Dr. J. Smith" wrote in message
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After I have edited a photo I save it in TIFF format. I have been using the uncompressed option but wonder if there is there is any good reason not to use one of the compression formats and if not, which one is the recommended choice?
Thanks
You might run into compatability issues, for instance the online software for our printing service won’t accept compressed files. I use LZW as a matter of course then convert when something goes out.
HTH
~Doc