Convert Jpeg to Tiff

I have tons of Jpeg I need to import to Lightroom. How can I set it to convert the images to Tiff while importing.
Thank you for your help in advance.

You may want to read up on how LR works. LR stores your originals (in your case the JPEGs). Unlike Photoshop, it does not make any changes to your originals but stores the details of the changes in the catalog. When you need to work on an image in an outside program or send it someplace then you export the image and the changes are applied at that time to the exported image. The original remains untouched. It is at that time that you can choose to export as a TIFF. Otherwise you don't need it. Your original image is all that you need and the quality is not affected no matter how many times you change it.
John
John G. Blair Studio
Occidental, California

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No, it does not. You can't re-create information that is lost. When the information the camera gathered was saved to a file, some of it was lost because of the JPG file format. Converting to TIFF won't bring back the lost information.
Aperture never loses Image information. When you export, you create new files. Depending on the specifications you select, those new files will contain the equivalent of "very little information" up to "as much information as I started with". Converting from JPG to TIFF doesn't allow you to start with any more information, and, again, Aperture never loses it, so there is no reason to convert at any point from the time your camera creates the JPG file until you create a new file by exporting from Aperture.
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--Kirby.

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Hi,
I have to put some photos on cd asap for submission to a magazine. They request the files as "300 dpi, lzw compressed, 8 bit tiff files". I can convert the jpegs i have into tiffs easily enough, but I haven't a clue what the rest of it means... Are these settings automatic when creating a tiff? Or do i need to do something else to the files? And is that possible with iphoto?
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Geoff the kiwi wrote:
If editing in PS or other jpegs there are very valid reasons for usin TIFFs.
Geoff,
the OP is talking about converting the thick end of 3000 jpegs into tiffs, and that's fairly pointless.
It'd only make any sense (and even then not a lot) if he intends to do multiple edits/saves on the files in a non-destructive way: but if he wants that tiff benefit, the files really should be tiffs from the start - all the advantages of 16 bits' worth of data are already gone, and any "damage" to the files caused by jpeg compression will be "baked in".
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Is it possible to convert a jpeg file to a tiff file
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debcoo

Converting a jpeg to tiff sees no loss in image quality from the process as there is no compression involved in the creation of a tiff file, ie. it is uncompressed. Going to jpeg there is compression of varying degrees and therefore a loss of information.
The real issue with the lossy compression files types, depending on how much compression is applied, is not so much the first time they are created, but rather every time you re-save a jpeg as a jpeg you throw away more information.
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Ahh...HA! Thank you for this wonderful insight. I think I've got it now!
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How to disable the automatic conversion from JPEG to TIFF?

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