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From: "cwbjib" <>
Subject: RE: [TMG] I need help with the size of my photos linked to the websitecreated by Second Site
Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2003 14:06:46 -0600
In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.2.20030101144105.0317cac0@pop3.norton.antivirus>


When scanning in a photo, what is the best format
to save the original? I use Picture Publisher and
the default is *.ppf. This is fine as long as I do
not change programs since I do not know is others
will read this format. Would it be better to save
orginal in a standard (jpeg, gif or tiff) format.

Calvin

-----Original Message-----
From: Lee Hoffman [mailto:]
Sent: Wednesday, January 01, 2003 1:49 PM
To:
Subject: Re: [TMG] I need help with the size of my
photos linked to the
websitecreated by Second Site


Richard Brogger wrote:
>Opening and closing *.jpg a million times will
cause no additional
>loss. However, opening *.jpg and using "Save" or
"Save as..." will add
>to the loss every time. Thus you should avoid
using a copy to make a
>new copy that must be saved. You can copy *.jpg
to a new file name
>without loss but you can not save *.jpg to a new
file name without
>loss. I hope that this makes sense because the
distinction is
>important.

A similar thing can be seen with a photo-copier.
Take anything and make a
reproduction using the copier. You can make any
number of copies at the
same time or later from the original. This
corresponds to opening and
closing the .jpg file. Now take one of those
copies and reproduce it with
the copier. Take the result and do the same
thing. Keep doing this more
than a few times and the final result with be a
copy that looks nothing
like the original and is probably unrecognizable
at best. This is
comparable ot opening the .jpg file as saving it
(as opposed to closing it).


Lee Hoffman/KY
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A user of the best genealogy program, The Master
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