Q: Anyway i have a question to ask you
I usually take pictures in RAW format and convert them using the CameraRaw converter on the Photoshop CS3. I usually do what I want to it and than switch it to a jpeg. Am I losing any image quality from this? Sometimes I have to print these in large format for school sometimes and I want to have the maximum image quality possible.

Also, is there a better file extension to convert to other than jpeg? I’ve been hearing tif and stuff like that.

thanks for your help!

A: Hi there,

Yeah RAW to jpeg is a good and efficient way of doing things. This is personal, other people will tell u otherwise. But i do this too. Once i am doing with RAW, PSD then i usually save em as jpg with the least compression (essentially jpg 12 in PS).

To be honest with you - i dont’ think TIFF offer any advantage - sure it saved at 16bits rather than 8bits (means that they are significant more information lost)…but the jpg file would have been optimised from your RAW and editing that the lost information would not be visible to you anyway. Sure again it might look slightly better if you are printing it big but it would be marginally - i rather choose to save my HD space by saving it as JPG….i even delete my PSD file as i do everything from Lightroom anyway - and all the PS adjustment can be duplicate fairly quickly.

Hope that helps….so for me I do save as jpg for prints and transportation.

Oat.