Photo imnport file formats

[TommP]

[sknis]

I went to Home\Photo\Import photos\ Import photos.

I aslo tried to go another route Home\Applications\utilities\media import.

both take me to the same Roxio media import and both do not give me an opportunity to specify the photo format.

Also I have captured off the same camera using my old program "Photo Explosion" and it pulls in .tif. But, it gives me the option to specify format before i captuer off the camera.

 

PS - not sure i included this before but I am using ECreator 9 Suite

 

I captuer some photos in tif because it gives me higher resolution to play with in case i want to posterize or do any enlargemnents

 

If you did set your camera to capture tif files, then this program will import them as tif files. It is a supported format. It will not change them to another format. I have done this but I import from the card. When you did use "Media Import", selected your input device and then navigated to the folder(s) on your camera, did you see the tif files? They should import as is. If you are having a problem with this perhaps your camera is the culprit.

[gi7omy]

I think we'd need a bit more than just a smiley - what are you trying to do and what with?

[TommP]

I think we'd need a bit more than just a smiley - what are you trying to do and what with?

 

My apologies. 1st time!

I want to capture photos from my Canon Powershot digital in .tif rather than jpeg.

but, I can't find a place to select the format.

Also, interesting that the photos i did capture in jpeg also capture as a microsoft document imaging file. So I have duplicates and can't figure out why.

I have looked for a preferences\setup and simply can't figure this one out

[gi7omy]

Did you try using Media Import to bring them in straight from the camera to the program?

[ggrussell]

I want to capture photos from my Canon Powershot digital in .tif rather than jpeg.

Any particular reason? The native format INSIDE the camera is 'JPEG' (unless you are shooting RAW). +

[TommP]

Did you try using Media Import to bring them in straight from the camera to the program?

 

I went to Home\Photo\Import photos\ Import photos.

I aslo tried to go another route Home\Applications\utilities\media import.

both take me to the same Roxio media import and both do not give me an opportunity to specify the photo format.

Also I have captured off the same camera using my old program "Photo Explosion" and it pulls in .tif. But, it gives me the option to specify format before i captuer off the camera.

 

PS - not sure i included this before but I am using ECreator 9 Suite

 

 

Any particular reason? The native format INSIDE the camera is 'JPEG' (unless you are shooting RAW). +

 

I captuer some photos in tif because it gives me higher resolution to play with in case i want to posterize or do any enlargemnents

[ggrussell]

I captuer some photos in tif because it gives me higher resolution to play with in case i want to posterize or do any enlargemnents

What makes you think that? What resolution the camera spits out is it. Converting it to another format CAN NOT increase the resolution. If you are just editing once and saving, there is no real advantage in converting to TIF even for enlargements.

[TommP]

What makes you think that? What resolution the camera spits out is it. Converting it to another format CAN NOT increase the resolution. If you are just editing once and saving, there is no real advantage in converting to TIF even for enlargements.

 

I guess we learn somthing new everyday.

In the past i have always set my camera to take photos at 2592 X 1944 and when i pulled the photos off the camera and specified .tif then it maintained that same dimension. But if I indictaed to pull it off as a jpeg it always took the dimension to 1600X1200.

I had always been told and read that tif was the richest format and allowed the most 'pixels" for editing and enlargement.

 

In this case I had assumed my camera was still set at 2592X1944 but after your message I checked it and it was set at 1600X1200.

I reset it and took a picture and it still saved it in jpeg but the dimensions changed to 2592X1944 which is what I had the camera set on.

 

I guess I need to do a little more research and learning on formats and whether or not I really need to shoot at that high of a resolution.

I know that one time I took a jpeg file in to have it enlargted and was told that the resolution was jpeg and that was why the enlargement was not as sharp.

 

Thanks for the input. At least i know why the resolution changed- my bad on forgetting i changed the camera setting.

But, i am still confused as to why Roxio does not have an option for setting the capture file type.

Hopefully the other attributes of the product will make me not regret I changed from Photo exposion.

[ggrussell]

I had always been told and read that tif was the richest format and allowed the most 'pixels" for editing and enlargement.

I'm not disputing what your wrote. I agree with it. I was just pointing out that CONVERTING to TIF has no real advantage. What you get from the camera can not be improved by a simple conversion. The only advantage you would gain in converting to TIF is 'if' you were doing lots of image editing and saving to the save file. That's because TIF has lossless compression if you save with LZW. Otherwise, TIF has no compression at all which makes for some huge files.

 

The rest is simple math. For 2592 X 1944 printed at 300DPI, that would be 8.64 in X 6.48 in. using a photo service like Walmart, printing an 8X10 with thta file would most likely look fine.

I know that one time I took a jpeg file in to have it enlargted and was told that the resolution was jpeg and that was why the enlargement was not as sharp.

That wasn't because the file was JPEG, but probably because you were enlarging it too much. For example you file above, 8X10 would probably look fine, but if you were to enlarge to 11X14, you would most likely start seeing pixels.