Check out this link. It has lots of interesting information about media archiving (includes images) programs and companies. Do a find on the page for zip and you will get to lots of media zipping programs. Very interesting. They are all rated too. This one sounds particularly interesting. RICAZip.com (link to http://www.ricazip.com/) (Windows) DOES NOT GIVE PRICE. MIGHT MEAN IT IS EXPENSIVE But there are others listed. RICAZip.com has proprietary lossless image compression technology called RICA (Reversible Image Compression Algorithm). RICA retains original file formats (e.g. TIFF, DICOM, BMP, TGA, PGM etc.). RICACom says We have yet to find any method that provides better compression ratios (for truly lossless), including wavelet. On a PII 450MHz RICA compresses @ 6MB per second and decompresses at 12MB per second. Available as a standalone image archive app, Adobe Photoshop Plugin, Browser Plugin, and RICA SDK. DCL reader Karen H. says: Evaluation of this product demonstrates excellent compression ratios and it is also very fast compared to other methods I have used. HTH-Rene Hales http://www.pbase.com/halesr -----Original Message----- From: owner-photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jeff, Tracy, Brianna West Sent: Friday, October 06, 2006 7:08 AM To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students Subject: ZIP files When archiving digital photo files; does anyone know is archiving into a ZIP file degrades the picture quality (if you were to extract the file and print from the extracted file). Is it like a JPEG?
