Re: Image Format for Transfer to PC

[Susan Hastings]

Hi,  PC users use jpegs too, it's not a Mac thing. Cheers, Susan

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On 06/09/2013, at 8:59 AM, Diana & Graham Stevens  wrote:

> Hi Ronni, Tony & Peter
> 
> I shall definitely use JPG, it was my preference anyway, the preferences of 
> PC people are arcane to me. 
> 
> I am sending the PSDs as well and I shall select the highest quality for the 
> JPGs. It means that the copies will take up almost as much space as the 
> originals. I hope it will all fit on an 8 GB flash drive but I bought a 16 GB 
> drive 'just in case'.
> 
> Most people who send me photos are family history contacts and I often scan 
> things for my husband to send to his RSL colleagues who prefer PDFs. They are 
> mostly aged like us but not computer literate.
> 
> I was lucky to have a boss who owned an Apple II and saw that this was the 
> way of the future. He bought a stack of Cromemco computers which ran CDOS & 
> CPM, then we swapped to IBMs. So I got to use computers every day, mostly 
> pre-Windoze. I still resort to DOS when I can't find things on PCs. We have 
> had Macs since 1985.
> 
> Best wishes from Diana
> 
> Sent from my iPad
> 
> On 05/09/2013, at 6:59 PM, Ronda Brown  wrote:
> 
>> A PDF is a Portable Document Format... Not a Photo image format.
>> Sure you can have images in a PDF, but why would they send a photo image as 
>> a PDF?
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Ronni
>> Sent from Ronni's iPad4
>> 
>> On 05/09/2013, at 6:16 PM, Diana & Graham Stevens  
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi Ronni
>>> Thanks for the advice. I thought JPG was the best choice but most PC users 
>>> who have sent me images favour PDFs.
>>> 
>>> I have often wondered why some files have a .jpeg extension. I always use 
>>> .jpg, I did not realise it had to be .jpg for PCs.
>>> 
>>> I am sure I have the Photoshop preferences set to 'Maximize File 
>>> Compatibility' but I shall check before I run the batch file.
>>> 
>>> Thanks again and best wishes from Diana
>>> 
>>> Sent from my iPad
>>> 
>>> On 05/09/2013, at 4:22 PM, Ronda Brown  wrote:
>>> 
 Hi Diana,
 
 I don't use Photoshop CS so others who do might be able to help you more.
 
 The PSD format is a cross platform format, as is JPEG, TIF, and many 
 others. 
 You might want to check and make sure that Photoshop's preferences are set 
 to 'Maximize File Compatibility' so that you won't have problems between 
 different versions of Photoshop.
 
 While .psd files can be opened by Photoshop (and a few other applications) 
 JPEG is the most supported image format - just about any application on 
 any device will open a JPEG.
 
 Just make sure you have the proper extensions (.psd, .jpg) on the end of 
 the files for PC.
 
 Cheers,
 Ronni
 Sent from Ronni's iPad4
 
 On 05/09/2013, at 11:52 AM, Diana & Graham Stevens  
 wrote:
 
> Hi all
> 
> I need to put some family photo scans on a USB Flash Drive to be used on 
> an unspecified computer (almost certainly a PC). The original files are 
> in Photoshop CS on my old G4 (OS 10.3).
> 
> I shall send the PSDs plus another more universal format. Should I choose 
> JPG or PDF? If I choose PDF should I use JPG or ZIP encoding?
> 
> I would appreciate any advice the list can give, I have a distrust of 
> PDFs but there may be a good reason for selecting this option.
> 
> Best wishes to all from Diana
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Re: Image Format for Transfer to PC

[Rick Armstrong]

I think it should be jpegs, tiffs files are sometimes too large to email. Note 
that you also have jpegs in various sizes, no point having a jpeg at billboard 
size if you only need to view on screen or for a normal printout at say A4 size.

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On 06/09/2013, at 8:21 AM, Peter Hinchliffe  wrote:

> 
> On 05/09/2013, at 11:52 AM, Diana & Graham Stevens  
> wrote:
> 
>> Hi all
>> 
>> I need to put some family photo scans on a USB Flash Drive to be used on an 
>> unspecified computer (almost certainly a PC). The original files are in 
>> Photoshop CS on my old G4 (OS 10.3).
>> 
>> I shall send the PSDs plus another more universal format. Should I choose 
>> JPG or PDF? If I choose PDF should I use JPG or ZIP encoding?
>> 
>> I would appreciate any advice the list can give, I have a distrust of PDFs 
>> but there may be a good reason for selecting this option.
>> 
>> Best wishes to all from Diana
> 
> JPG is probably the most "universal" format and is perhaps the most highly 
> recommended. Personally I would opt for PNG, but there is no guarantee that 
> you recipient's software will properly support it (although they should have 
> no problem if their computer is running all the recent updates). Just be 
> aware that both FPG and PNG (and for that matter PDF) all use varying degrees 
> of compression and are therefore "lossy" formats. The problem here is that 
> with every load and save operation, a little more information is lost, 
> resulting in a significant loss in quality over time.
> 
> If you want them to get the highest possible quality, either send the 
> original PSD files (again, this will depend on their ability to read the 
> files) or TIFF (Tagged Image File Format), which almost anything can read. Of 
> course, the downside is that the file sizes will be much larger, so you will 
> fit fewer on your Flash Drive. 
> 
> Peter HinchliffeApwin Computer Services
> FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer
> Perth, Western Australia
> Phone (618) 9332 6482Mob 0403 046 948
> 
> Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to.
> 
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Re: Image Format for Transfer to PC

[Diana & Graham Stevens]

Hi Ronni, Tony & Peter

I shall definitely use JPG, it was my preference anyway, the preferences of PC 
people are arcane to me. 

I am sending the PSDs as well and I shall select the highest quality for the 
JPGs. It means that the copies will take up almost as much space as the 
originals. I hope it will all fit on an 8 GB flash drive but I bought a 16 GB 
drive 'just in case'.

Most people who send me photos are family history contacts and I often scan 
things for my husband to send to his RSL colleagues who prefer PDFs. They are 
mostly aged like us but not computer literate.

I was lucky to have a boss who owned an Apple II and saw that this was the way 
of the future. He bought a stack of Cromemco computers which ran CDOS & CPM, 
then we swapped to IBMs. So I got to use computers every day, mostly 
pre-Windoze. I still resort to DOS when I can't find things on PCs. We have had 
Macs since 1985.

Best wishes from Diana

Sent from my iPad

On 05/09/2013, at 6:59 PM, Ronda Brown  wrote:

> A PDF is a Portable Document Format... Not a Photo image format.
> Sure you can have images in a PDF, but why would they send a photo image as a 
> PDF?
> 
> Cheers,
> Ronni
> Sent from Ronni's iPad4
> 
> On 05/09/2013, at 6:16 PM, Diana & Graham Stevens  
> wrote:
> 
>> Hi Ronni
>> Thanks for the advice. I thought JPG was the best choice but most PC users 
>> who have sent me images favour PDFs.
>> 
>> I have often wondered why some files have a .jpeg extension. I always use 
>> .jpg, I did not realise it had to be .jpg for PCs.
>> 
>> I am sure I have the Photoshop preferences set to 'Maximize File 
>> Compatibility' but I shall check before I run the batch file.
>> 
>> Thanks again and best wishes from Diana
>> 
>> Sent from my iPad
>> 
>> On 05/09/2013, at 4:22 PM, Ronda Brown  wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi Diana,
>>> 
>>> I don't use Photoshop CS so others who do might be able to help you more.
>>> 
>>> The PSD format is a cross platform format, as is JPEG, TIF, and many 
>>> others. 
>>> You might want to check and make sure that Photoshop's preferences are set 
>>> to 'Maximize File Compatibility' so that you won't have problems between 
>>> different versions of Photoshop.
>>> 
>>> While .psd files can be opened by Photoshop (and a few other applications) 
>>> JPEG is the most supported image format - just about any application on any 
>>> device will open a JPEG.
>>> 
>>> Just make sure you have the proper extensions (.psd, .jpg) on the end of 
>>> the files for PC.
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> Ronni
>>> Sent from Ronni's iPad4
>>> 
>>> On 05/09/2013, at 11:52 AM, Diana & Graham Stevens  
>>> wrote:
>>> 
 Hi all
 
 I need to put some family photo scans on a USB Flash Drive to be used on 
 an unspecified computer (almost certainly a PC). The original files are in 
 Photoshop CS on my old G4 (OS 10.3).
 
 I shall send the PSDs plus another more universal format. Should I choose 
 JPG or PDF? If I choose PDF should I use JPG or ZIP encoding?
 
 I would appreciate any advice the list can give, I have a distrust of PDFs 
 but there may be a good reason for selecting this option.
 
 Best wishes to all from Diana
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Re: Image Format for Transfer to PC

[Peter Hinchliffe]

On 05/09/2013, at 11:52 AM, Diana & Graham Stevens  wrote:

> Hi all
> 
> I need to put some family photo scans on a USB Flash Drive to be used on an 
> unspecified computer (almost certainly a PC). The original files are in 
> Photoshop CS on my old G4 (OS 10.3).
> 
> I shall send the PSDs plus another more universal format. Should I choose JPG 
> or PDF? If I choose PDF should I use JPG or ZIP encoding?
> 
> I would appreciate any advice the list can give, I have a distrust of PDFs 
> but there may be a good reason for selecting this option.
> 
> Best wishes to all from Diana
> 
> 

JPG is probably the most "universal" format and is perhaps the most highly 
recommended. Personally I would opt for PNG, but there is no guarantee that you 
recipient's software will properly support it (although they should have no 
problem if their computer is running all the recent updates). Just be aware 
that both FPG and PNG (and for that matter PDF) all use varying degrees of 
compression and are therefore "lossy" formats. The problem here is that with 
every load and save operation, a little more information is lost, resulting in 
a significant loss in quality over time.

If you want them to get the highest possible quality, either send the original 
PSD files (again, this will depend on their ability to read the files) or TIFF 
(Tagged Image File Format), which almost anything can read. Of course, the 
downside is that the file sizes will be much larger, so you will fit fewer on 
your Flash Drive. 

Peter HinchliffeApwin Computer Services
FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer
Perth, Western Australia
Phone (618) 9332 6482Mob 0403 046 948

Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to.

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Re: Image Format for Transfer to PC

[A J Francis]

Hi Guy's

I send numerous Photo's from Photo shop converted to .jpg and have not had any 
problems from either Mac to Mac or Mac to PC. I download all events to memory 
sticks and so far have had no problems.

Kind Regards

Tony
 
BODDINGTON.



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Re: Image Format for Transfer to PC

[Ronda Brown]

A PDF is a Portable Document Format... Not a Photo image format.
Sure you can have images in a PDF, but why would they send a photo image as a 
PDF?

Cheers,
Ronni
Sent from Ronni's iPad4

On 05/09/2013, at 6:16 PM, Diana & Graham Stevens  wrote:

> Hi Ronni
> 
> Thanks for the advice. I thought JPG was the best choice but most PC users 
> who have sent me images favour PDFs.
> 
> I have often wondered why some files have a .jpeg extension. I always use 
> .jpg, I did not realise it had to be .jpg for PCs.
> 
> I am sure I have the Photoshop preferences set to 'Maximize File 
> Compatibility' but I shall check before I run the batch file.
> 
> Thanks again and best wishes from Diana
> 
> Sent from my iPad
> 
> On 05/09/2013, at 4:22 PM, Ronda Brown  wrote:
> 
>> Hi Diana,
>> 
>> I don't use Photoshop CS so others who do might be able to help you more.
>> 
>> The PSD format is a cross platform format, as is JPEG, TIF, and many others. 
>> You might want to check and make sure that Photoshop's preferences are set 
>> to 'Maximize File Compatibility' so that you won't have problems between 
>> different versions of Photoshop.
>> 
>> While .psd files can be opened by Photoshop (and a few other applications) 
>> JPEG is the most supported image format - just about any application on any 
>> device will open a JPEG.
>> 
>> Just make sure you have the proper extensions (.psd, .jpg) on the end of the 
>> files for PC.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Ronni
>> Sent from Ronni's iPad4
>> 
>> On 05/09/2013, at 11:52 AM, Diana & Graham Stevens  
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi all
>>> 
>>> I need to put some family photo scans on a USB Flash Drive to be used on an 
>>> unspecified computer (almost certainly a PC). The original files are in 
>>> Photoshop CS on my old G4 (OS 10.3).
>>> 
>>> I shall send the PSDs plus another more universal format. Should I choose 
>>> JPG or PDF? If I choose PDF should I use JPG or ZIP encoding?
>>> 
>>> I would appreciate any advice the list can give, I have a distrust of PDFs 
>>> but there may be a good reason for selecting this option.
>>> 
>>> Best wishes to all from Diana
>>> 
>>> Sent from my iPad
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Re: Image Format for Transfer to PC

[Diana & Graham Stevens]

Hi Ronni

Thanks for the advice. I thought JPG was the best choice but most PC users who 
have sent me images favour PDFs.

I have often wondered why some files have a .jpeg extension. I always use .jpg, 
I did not realise it had to be .jpg for PCs.

I am sure I have the Photoshop preferences set to 'Maximize File Compatibility' 
but I shall check before I run the batch file.

Thanks again and best wishes from Diana

Sent from my iPad

On 05/09/2013, at 4:22 PM, Ronda Brown  wrote:

> Hi Diana,
> 
> I don't use Photoshop CS so others who do might be able to help you more.
> 
> The PSD format is a cross platform format, as is JPEG, TIF, and many others. 
> You might want to check and make sure that Photoshop's preferences are set to 
> 'Maximize File Compatibility' so that you won't have problems between 
> different versions of Photoshop.
> 
> While .psd files can be opened by Photoshop (and a few other applications) 
> JPEG is the most supported image format - just about any application on any 
> device will open a JPEG.
> 
> Just make sure you have the proper extensions (.psd, .jpg) on the end of the 
> files for PC.
> 
> Cheers,
> Ronni
> Sent from Ronni's iPad4
> 
> On 05/09/2013, at 11:52 AM, Diana & Graham Stevens  
> wrote:
> 
>> Hi all
>> 
>> I need to put some family photo scans on a USB Flash Drive to be used on an 
>> unspecified computer (almost certainly a PC). The original files are in 
>> Photoshop CS on my old G4 (OS 10.3).
>> 
>> I shall send the PSDs plus another more universal format. Should I choose 
>> JPG or PDF? If I choose PDF should I use JPG or ZIP encoding?
>> 
>> I would appreciate any advice the list can give, I have a distrust of PDFs 
>> but there may be a good reason for selecting this option.
>> 
>> Best wishes to all from Diana
>> 
>> Sent from my iPad
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Re: Image Format for Transfer to PC

[Ronda Brown]

Hi Diana,

I don't use Photoshop CS so others who do might be able to help you more.

The PSD format is a cross platform format, as is JPEG, TIF, and many others. 
You might want to check and make sure that Photoshop's preferences are set to 
'Maximize File Compatibility' so that you won't have problems between different 
versions of Photoshop.

While .psd files can be opened by Photoshop (and a few other applications) JPEG 
is the most supported image format - just about any application on any device 
will open a JPEG.

Just make sure you have the proper extensions (.psd, .jpg) on the end of the 
files for PC.

Cheers,
Ronni
Sent from Ronni's iPad4

On 05/09/2013, at 11:52 AM, Diana & Graham Stevens  wrote:

> Hi all
> 
> I need to put some family photo scans on a USB Flash Drive to be used on an 
> unspecified computer (almost certainly a PC). The original files are in 
> Photoshop CS on my old G4 (OS 10.3).
> 
> I shall send the PSDs plus another more universal format. Should I choose JPG 
> or PDF? If I choose PDF should I use JPG or ZIP encoding?
> 
> I would appreciate any advice the list can give, I have a distrust of PDFs 
> but there may be a good reason for selecting this option.
> 
> Best wishes to all from Diana
> 
> Sent from my iPad
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Image Format for Transfer to PC

[Diana & Graham Stevens]

Hi all

I need to put some family photo scans on a USB Flash Drive to be used on an 
unspecified computer (almost certainly a PC). The original files are in 
Photoshop CS on my old G4 (OS 10.3).

I shall send the PSDs plus another more universal format. Should I choose JPG 
or PDF? If I choose PDF should I use JPG or ZIP encoding?

I would appreciate any advice the list can give, I have a distrust of PDFs but 
there may be a good reason for selecting this option.

Best wishes to all from Diana

Sent from my iPad
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