Help converting tiffs to jpegs

After processing raw images in Elements 8 and saving as tiffs, I find that I need to convert the images to jpegs for commercial printing. How do I acomplish that?

In the Organizer, File->Export->As New File
In the Editor, open the .tiff and then File->Save As and select JPG
In this scenario, there is really no need to save a processed RAW as a TIFF, you can leave it as RAW and save a step (click on "Done" in the RAW editor)

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I am cataloguing a box of slides and negatives for my family. The scanner generates huge TIFF files (on purpose), and I have an Applescript that then uses sips to copy them into low quality JPEG files using this command:
do shell script ("sips -s format jpeg -s formatOptions low -s description " & "'" & "Original path: " & (POSIX path of an_image) & "'" & space & (POSIX path of an_image) & " --out " & new_file)
where an_image is the source file, and new_file is the path and name of the converted image.
This way, I can save the original file path as the image's description while shrinking the file size to speed up later importing into iPhoto. As part of the iPhoto import, that description from the metadata is placed in the on screen comment section for each image.
This works fine to do the initial shrinking, but less than half of the resulting jpeg files can subsequently be imported into iPhoto. I get this error:
The following file could not be imported. (The file is in an unrecognizable format.)
And yet, Preview and Safari both open the files with no problems.
Is there anything else I need to set when doing the conversion with sips to make it easier for iPhoto to recognize the converted files?
I have over 1000 images, and anticipate a final total of about 2500 when I am done. These are images of myself and my siblings from the 1960s and 1970s, and my idea is to scan them all at high resolution, and use the converted, smaller files for iPhoto for keywording and Faces to get them organized, while retaining the paths to the original images. Any commentary is appreciated.

I have uploaded one of the bad JPG files here:
www.mrcodeboy.com/smith/Try.jpg
I tried examining the metadata with exiftool, Image Events, and mdls, but there are a number of differences between the TIFF metadata and the JPEG metadata structures. I found no obvious differences, but this is a good idea, and I will continue to examine those closely for clues.
*EDIT*
I downloaded the bad JPEG above onto a different machine; it still does not import into iPhoto. However, by invoking sips on that file to convert it back to a TIFF file thusly:
sips -s format tiff Try.jpg --out TryTF.tif
it imported just fine. There has to be some sort of parameter that is NOT being addressed in the conversion from TIFF to JPEG that is somehow messing this up, yet is preserved when the file is re-written as a TIFF.
Message was edited by: casdvm

Converting tiffs to jpegs

I have exported images from lightroom in tiff format, now I would like to get them printed. The printer I have spoken to only works with jpegs? This brings up several questions, will I loose image quality? If so maybe I should be looking for a different printer. If not can I convert these files or should I just re-export them again using jpeg settings?
Thanks !
Joe

You're right about the jpegs for Bay. I was confusing them with the lab I
used before. The quality of their prints from jpeg was better than that from
tiff I got at a previous lab.
To get good color in your prints you need two things. I. you need good
monitor calibration. You have that covered already which is more than most
folks. This allows you to make sure the color you see is what ends up in the
file. II. you need to use the correct color space in your output file.
Colors are defined within a certain standard and the same color will have
different values in different standards or vice versa, the same RGB values
describe completely different colors in different color spaces. The most
common of those color spaces is sRGB which is the standard for the web.
Other big standards are adobeRGB and prophotoRGB. Both can describe a much
wider array of colors than sRGB, but are less standard and often lead to
unexpected effects if your destination is not very savvy. If your lab is not
very good, they will not understand files in adobeRGB or any other space and
your prints will come back desaturated and or muddy looking. Bay understands
different color spaces than sRGB and I usually send them adobeRGB jpeg
files. This allows for slightly more saturated colors in the final print as
the file can describe more saturated colors. This is noticeable in things
like Neon colors, flowers, etc but for many subjects it doesn't matter an
awful lot and sRGB would be just fine.
Regarding output sharpening. This is a different step from the capture
sharpening you do in Develop. Output sharpening, which is indeed done in the
export module, allows you to compensate for the softening that is introduced
by the scaling and printing processes. It basically slightly oversharpens
your output file (they will look a little too crunchy if you look at the
output files) which will get softened for a very nice sharp result in the
final print that will be more like what you see on your screen. This needs
some experimentation. I usually use matte standard and I scale to the native
resolution of the printers (250 ppi for the photographic printers at Bay).
Note that this is a detail that allows you to eke out the final last bot of
possible quality. In my experience, your customers will not notice this at
all but it really looks much better to me. Your customer usually looks far
more at the color and contrast of the image than he/she will take out a
magnifying glass to check the microdetail on your print. If you print for
fine art purposes, this is different though and you would be best off really
paying attention to this detail (pun intended) too.
Hope this helps!

Trouble converting TIFF to JPEG

I have a Canon G9 and when I process RAW images in Canon's software, it automatically saves it as a huge tiff tile. I am using Photoshop CS3 on Mac 10.5 Leopard and when I open the TIFF to change it to JPEG, it doesn't offer that option in the "save as" screen.

How many bits per channel? I'm guessing it's 16. You need to convert to 8 under Image>Mode before trying to Save as jpg.

IPhoto cannot convert Tiff to Jpeg after editing.

I have a set of very high resolution scans made on an 11" x 17" Epson scanner that I would like to edit in iPhoto. iPhoto imports these files (which are 450 MB or so in size) (sometimes) allows me to edit them - - and sometimes it crashes when I attempt to edit these files - - but when I attempt to export them as maximum resolution jpegs it says it can't do so. Once I've quit iPhoto and then start it again the edited image disappears when I double click it. My guess is that file is simply too large for iPhoto.

I Additionally, when I convert the file using the save as command in Preview, I can convert it into a jpeg or jpeg2000 and it is much smaller (71GB for example), but the same anomalous behavior occurs when I finish editing the file and quit iPhoto- - when I double click the thumbnail, the full sized image appears briefly and then disappears. leaving in its place a completely black window. I would be most appreciative of any insights.
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When I try to "save as" for certain photos, I do not get the option in the dialog box of saving as a jpeg file (I do get jpeg 2000). Does anyone have any idea why, and what I can do to save the photo as a jpeg? Thanks.

Yes, but if the image has layers and is 8bit, you can still create a JPEG, only PE will create it as a copy, which is something like doing a Save As, only instead of the new image being open on your desktop afterwards, the old image is still there and the new image is wherever you saved it, but closed.

Losing metadata after TIFF to JPEG conversion in Image Processor

When I use Image Processor to convert TIFF to JPEG for my images I am losing metadata information placed in the Properties section of my image file (PC). Is there a work-around for this so that the information isn't lost? Any idea why this is happening?

Possibly the tiff is 16 bit.
In Full Edit click Image à Mode à 8 Bit/channel
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Can you edit a TIFF in iPhoto 09 without it converting to a JPEG?

I am wondering if I can edit photos in the TIFF format in iPhoto 09 without having them automatically converted to the JPEG format? I read that you should never edit a TIFF photo if you want to keep it in that format, because iPhoto will immediately convert it to a JPEG the minute you edit it without any warming.
I am in the process of scanning thousands of slides and I don't want to scan them as TIFFs only to have iPhoto convert them to JPEGs. I will do most of my editing with Photoshop Elements 6 for Mac, but just in case I ever edit a TIFF in iPhoto 09, I need to know if it will automatically be converted to a JPEG or not.
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Thanks Terence. What a relief. I still don't understand what the book I read was talking about then. Here's a quote from the section I was referring to in "iPhoto 08: The Missing Manual" book, p 91 (ISBN: 0596-516185):
"Note, however, that the instant you edit a TIFF-format photo (Chapter 7), iPhoto converts it into JPEG.
That's fine if you plan to order prints or a photo book (Chapter 11) from iPhoto, since JPEG files are required for those purposes. But if you took that once-in-a-lifetime, priceless shot as a TIFF file, don't do any editing in iPhoto-don't even rotate it- if you hope to maintain its perfect, pristine quality."
After my test results, I thought maybe this was something that had changed from iPhoto 08 to iPhoto 09, so I went to the bookstore yesterday and checked the same book for iPhoto 09, and there it was, the same quote! (on a different page, of course).
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When I change my TIFFs to jpegs, the color and tone are changing as well, any ideas as to what the problem could be?

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Converting tiff images into jpeg

I would like to convert tiff images into jpegs with iphoto. I dont want to duplicate all my photos and then have to delete one by one!
How do I do this?

Welcome to the Apple Discussions. The short answer is that you cannot. You will have to export the files via the File->Export->File Export menu option, selecting jpeg as the format and checking the box to include the keywords and comments, and maximum size. Then import the jpgs and delete the tiffs.
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Raw File conversion to Tiff or Jpeg - best workflow for multiple files in Photo Shop Elements 11

Hello, I am pretty new to shooting in raw and Photoshop Elements (11). I have one big problem. Once I open Elements up and load the Raw files from the SD card it shows them all on the left side in Camera Raw. I make my contrast and color adjustments if needed, but then my problem starts: I do not really want to make any further adjustments in Elements itself, but in order to save my Raw files either as Tiff or Jpeg it seems like I need to - through clicking on the "open image". Now it only opens up that one particular photo. I did not manage to go simply back to Camera Raw to grab the next one as the screen just disappears. However, this one by one process is of course not the preferred way. I know that there is batch processing, but am also not sure if my adjustments that I did in Camera Raw will carry over as I am actually never saving anything and would like to avoid saving it before all manually as .dng files as it would just be another extra step. I hope I could make clear where I have problems and what I would like to achieve and hope you can help me. Many thanks in advance.
Philip

Simply select and edit each picture thumbnail from the left panel without clicking 'Done' or 'Open'.
When you have edited each individual picture, select all your thumbnails - click on the first one - shift click on the last one. They should be all highlighted.
Then simply click 'Done'.
Your edits are saved in sidecar xmp files.
If the thumbnails are not yet automatically updated, select the files, right click and choose 'Update thumbnail'.
No need to use the editor with 'Open as' if you don't want any further edit or jpeg/tiff/psd/png version.
Edit:
I am not sure I have understood your question.
The above process lets you convert and edit a batch of raw files without opening the editor.
If you want to get jpeg or tiff files from the already edited raw files, either use the 'process multiple files' of the editor or the 'export' feature from the Organizer.
The common raw workflow in Elements consists in converting small batches as explained above to take advantage of applying common edits or individual differences. In some cases you want to open the editor, in others not.
That's at the input time.
When you want to output pictures, the selection of picture is different for each purpose. You'll include pictures edited in different batches, some still in raw format, others already converted in version sets to jpeg/tiff... For each output purpose, those selected pictures can be sent to the destination folder in the required format withoug opening the editor at that stage either using 'process multiple files' or 'export'.

Save Tiff to jpeg

Help , I am using CS2 and the tiff files that I have been working on I want to convert to jpeg format , I select "save as" but when the box opens I do not have an option to save as a jpeg all other relevent files seem to be there but no jpeg option, any one got any ideas

Thank you, my tiff file was a 16bit greyscale which I forgot to mention ,by changing the mode to RGB colour and then changing to 8bit as well allowed me to convert to a jpeg
so thank you very much for the info
regards mrwales007

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Toshiba Satellite A70 running Win XP
When I download a single RAW image file from my new Panasonic DMC-FZ30 to Elements 4, both a RAW and JPEG file appear. Why is this? Have the RAW file characteristics been altered automatically?
After adjusting/editing the RAW file in Elements 4's RAW file editor (which appears whether I call for the quick or standard editor) I save it as a DNG file which is then added to the browser. I am unable to convert this file or the original RAW file to a TIFF or JPEG file for further editing in the standard editor as there is no "Save as" function in the drop down file menu.
Am I missing something simple? or ...
Help please!!!
Ian

Ian, the answer to the second portion of your query: after you've opened
the image in the Raw Converter and made your adjustments, select the choice
"Open" rather than "Save" at the bottom right. This takes you directly into
the main Editor screen, where you can then save as JPEG, TIFF, and a variety
of other formats. That Save in the RAW converter is a new feature in PE 4,
and I ran into the same dilemma.
Regarding the JPEG that comes along with the RAW, can you open it and see
whether it's a full-size image? It could be a thumbnail. On the other
hand, as Colin suggested, your camera may have a mode that creates an
'embedded' JPEG when shooting in RAW. My Canon's do that.
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Copnverting RAW files to TIFF / Tiff to Jpeg etc.

A) Is there a way to convert my RAW files into TIFF or Jpeg in Iphoto? (Right now I have to export them to Elements.)
B) Am I doing any harm to my Iphoto library by re-importing the files that I've converted using Elements?

Hi george1936,
You get a better answer in the iPhoto Forum.
This one is for discussing the Discussions Forums.
You may have missed the big notice at the top
Regards
Colin R.
Message was edited by: Colin Robinson
PS You might want to have a look at the Help file, specifically the Export command.

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