A scanner may give you the option to save a file as a TIFF, but a lot of websites don't. I checked a few of my favorites.
Ancestry's only option is .jpg. American Ancestors and Family Search save as .jpg. They don't give you an option but they do allow you to open it in a photo editor instead. I have a lot of older images of books that are .gif. I'm not sure that any websites are using that any more. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Shirley York Anderson yor...@prodigy.net ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ My web site: http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~syafam/ http://myfamilybrickwalls.blogspot.com/ ----- Original Message ---- From: JLB <j...@jgen.ws> To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Sent: Sat, January 19, 2013 12:48:11 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] jpeg and pdf pictures I've heard this same thing about scanners from my cousin, Sam, who insists her scanner can only scan pictures as JPG's. I doubt it but I haven't seen her scanner. When you scan pictures you're just scanning them. It doesn't have anything to do with file format. It's when you save them that you choose a format. Use the drop down arrow next to Save to choose TIFF. When you want to convert a TIFF to a JPG, simply open the TIFF in any photo software (XnView and Paint.NET are both free) and re-save it as a JPG. This can also be done in batch-mode in some software. ----- JL Beeken JLog - simple computer technology for genealogists http://jlog.jgen.ws/ On 1/19/2013 3:29 AM, Barbara wrote: > Do I need a special program to put the pictures into TIFF? > > My scanner shows only JPEG and PDF. I have a copier/scanner/fax. > > I appreciate all of you who have taken the time to write me. I have Jeff's > book (didn't see the workshop on line), but I haven't been able to decifer > TIFF. I know that seems to be the best place to save family photos that > there appears to be only one of a kind and then make copies in JPEG to > share. > > A hearty thank you to each of you who responded. As you can see I'm still > learning. > Barb > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "JLB" <j...@jgen.ws> > To: <LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com> > Sent: Friday, January 18, 2013 4:56 PM > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] jpeg and pdf pictures > > > If you have something like Adobe Photoshop Elements you can open your > PDF's there and it will extract the photos for you. Do it one PDF at a time. > > The other way (depending on the size of your photos) is to open the PDF > as usual. Depending on your PDF reader there may be a camera icon in the > menu that allows you to take a screenshot of the photo. You'd want to be > able to do that at full size, of course. > > It depends what software is available to you but,no, you can't edit a > photo inside a PDF. Not in the way you mean, anyway. > > And no, you shouldn't be editing JPG's. It's a compressed format and > every time you edit and re-save you'll lose picture quality. Your photos > should be in TIFF to begin with but that's not always possible. > ---- > JL Beeken > JLog - simple computer technology for genealogists > http://jlog.jgen.ws/ > > On 1/18/2013 1:35 PM, Barbara wrote: >> Hopefully you don't think this is off topic. >> Two questions about pdf saved photos: >> 1. Is there a way to edit pdf saved pictures? >> 2. If not is there a way to change pdf saved pictures into jpeg so >> they can be edited? >> I'm learning, and have saved several phots in pdf and have not been able >> to work with them. 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