PSD and TIF conversion

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ottobelo
Aug 16, 2003
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Is there any information and quality degradation when converting a file from PSD to TIF, or vice versa? Thanks.

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Robert Feinman
Aug 16, 2003
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Is there any information and quality degradation when converting a file from PSD to TIF, or vice versa? Thanks.


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Eric Gill
Aug 16, 2003
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Is there any information and quality degradation when converting a file from PSD to TIF, or vice versa? Thanks.

As long as you don’t select any of the new lossy compression formats in the Tiff file or flatten the image, no.
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ottobelo
Aug 17, 2003
Eric Gill wrote:
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Is there any information and quality degradation when converting a file from PSD to TIF, or vice versa? Thanks.

As long as you don’t select any of the new lossy compression formats in the Tiff file or flatten the image, no.

Please clarify what is the problem with flattening the image. Thanks.
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Eric Gill
Aug 17, 2003
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Eric Gill wrote:
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Is there any information and quality degradation when converting a file from PSD to TIF, or vice versa? Thanks.

As long as you don’t select any of the new lossy compression formats in the Tiff file or flatten the image, no.

Please clarify what is the problem with flattening the image. Thanks.

You lose your layers. This means your ability to edit the file is greatly hampered, and any vector information dissapears.

If you aren’t using any of the above, there is no reason whatsoever to be using psd in the first place.
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ottobelo
Aug 18, 2003
Eric Gill wrote:
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Eric Gill wrote:
:

Is there any information and quality degradation when converting a file from PSD to TIF, or vice versa? Thanks.

As long as you don’t select any of the new lossy compression formats in the Tiff file or flatten the image, no.

Please clarify what is the problem with flattening the image. Thanks.

You lose your layers. This means your ability to edit the file is greatly hampered, and any vector information dissapears.

If you aren’t using any of the above, there is no reason whatsoever to be using psd in the first place.

Not meaning to beat a dead horse, but let me make sure I understand what you meant:

1. If a file has layers and is not flattened, then converting it between psd and tif without lossy compression will not lose any information and quality degradation.

2. If a file has layers and is flattened, the information in the layers is lost. Converting a flatten file between psd and tif without lossy compression will not have any quality degradation.

As others have pointed out, I believe that PS7 supports layers in both tif and psd.

Thanks.

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