> Sorry to jump in, without reading the whole thread properly: > > colette <cmm@wi.rr.com> writes: > > > EEKS! Sorry, I have to jump in here, Rand. Your advice to Jody re: JPEG is > > on the mark in order to save space on her cards....HOWEVER, never, and I > > mean NEVER shoot a wedding or anything professional as a JPEG. Everytime > > you open a JPEG document you compromise the image, thus lose more and more > > each time you open it, manipulate it, close it, print it, etc. > > ...but this is nonsense. Every time you **save** an image (whatever > format it came from) in jpeg format, there is a loss. But if you take an > image in jpeg from somewhere, and don't want to lose any more Well DUH!!!! No sh*t, Sherlock! I ASSUMED that if one opend the document, one would SAVE the changes made to the document. Sorry! I forgot we have 4th grade level experts such as yourself on PF. > information, you simply save it in a lossless format (tiff probably > best, IIRC, but any lossless format, including png, or PaintShopPro's > proprietary format, etc etc). Maybe you should read the ENTIRE post, Chandler. She CANNOT AFFORD to save images as Tiffs or any other way. > > What is a *bad* idea is to open a jpeg, *save* it, open again, *save* > again, [over and over again]. Though of course it also depends on the > jpeg setting, which it helps to understand. > Excuse me for not saying "SAVE" after each OPEN I mentioned. It was ASS-U-MED.....and in your case, Chandler, this happens between us more often than not! Sad such an intelligent man is such an arrogant prick! Happy Holidays! Colette > > Brian Chandler > ---------------- > geo://Sano.Japan.Planet_3 > Jigsaw puzzles from Japan at: > http://imaginatorium.org/shop/ >