Brian, I would add that most reliable picture editing program allow one to save the image in their own format. Apart from being lossless this also means that changes made previous can be undone, usually back to the base image if necessary. This is how I save the pictures which I have worked on, rather than converting all (or saving every scan) to TIFF. This does take up quite a lot less space on my PC, because if I have not worked on a picture then it is still in the JPG format.
Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ -----Original Message----- From: Brian/Support Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2012 1:43 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Source Writer and Clipboard It is your choice whether to attach the image to the event, the source or both. If you attach a picture to an event (excluding birth, Chr/Bapt, death and burial) the picture can be included in narrative reports and will appear in the body of the report when the event is included. Pictures attached only to sources will only appear in the source citation listing at the end of the report if source pictures are selected. Re file formats: The Tif format Geoff recommends is for saving original scans. This is a loss-less format that includes all the detail from the original scan. Editing and saving again as a tif makes no change to the quality of the picture. It creates a large sized file because of this. A jpg file is a lossy format. It creates a smaller size file but loses a small amount of detail. Usually this loss is minimal with the first save but editing and re-saving a jpg file many times will result in degradation each cycle of edit and save and can lead to significant degradation in the picture quality. The recommendation is that you scan and save an original in tif format. You then edit and create a jpg copy of this file for attaching within Legacy. This gives you a high quality original if you need to perform further edits and a smaller file to attach to Legacy. Brian Customer Support Millennia Corporation br...@legacyfamilytree.com http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com We are changing the world of genealogy! When replying to this message, please include all previous correspondence. Thanks. On 22/08/2012 18:51, Sentz wrote: > Lots of nuances to the source writer. When I click on the event and > then click on the source citation in the event window, the citation > does show up on the list for alt. death and I did find it in the main > citation list for the record by scrolling down further. The document > image was saved on my computer as a .jpg file. I did as you suggested > and saved the picture to the event. Should we be saving the picture to > the event and the citation? > Geoff mentioned in his last webinar saving some things in a .tif file > as opposed to a .jpg. Does anyone recall the reasoning behind this? > Something about the difference in the documents, ie. Bible records vs. > other types of records. Why would one file type be better than the > other? Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
