Re: TIFF format (was The Creative Gouge)
Re: TIFF format (was The Creative Gouge)
- Subject: Re: TIFF format (was The Creative Gouge)
- From: Jonathan Taylor <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 08 May 2013 16:23:40 -0400
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG_2000
Save as JPEG2000 in PS and check lossless.
jt
On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 4:16 PM, Walker Blackwell <email@hidden
> wrote:
> I'm sorry. But JPEG 2000 is used by image archivists? A lossy format?
> What!?
>
> Please cite your reasons for the statement below,
>
> Walker (an image archivist)
>
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>
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>
> -------------------
> Walker Blackwell
>
> On May 8, 2013, at 12:30 PM, Martin Orpen <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> > On 8 May 2013, at 17:49, Robin Myers <email@hidden> wrote:
> >
> >> The issue with updating TIFF to use images larger than 4GB is that the
> TIFF tags are a fixed 12 byte format with many of them using an unsigned
> 32-bit value for the image size. It would require some clever work to make
> a newer file format backward compatible yet allow for larger images. There
> is also the issue of all the third party extensions TIFF has received over
> the last two decades and keeping any new TIFF format compatible with them.
> >
> >
> > TIFF has also been dropped by major archives for a number of reasons --
> one of which is its proprietary status.
> >
> > JPEG 2000 has won the storage format battle for archivists and I can't
> see TIFF fighting back unless Adobe gives up ownership.
> >
> > --
> > Martin Orpen
> > Idea Digital Imaging Ltd
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