adding memory

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TIFF is fine, it's a "lossless" format.
Just investigate what photo scanner
and photo editing software you plan
to use. Most software packages support
TIFF and it's various options.

For basic (non critical editing) I use
Paint .NET: http://www.getpaint.net/
(you would be amazed at what this little program can do)

For my other work it's Photoshop.
 
Again thanks.
We're using PaintShopPro and honestly we have saved some of the old
newsprint and photos we're putting on our web site in .jpg.

Question- after a photo is saved as a .jpg, can it be opened and resaved as
a tiff? I know you can save it but is the damage done? I'm guessing it's
cooked but my wife wanted me to ask as she's the one heading up this
project. I have a funny feeling why she's asking. :)
At least they have just started. They have over 3000 photos and 4 decades of
newsprint aritcles to work with.
 
This situation is OS independent. Nobody can deny that.
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The situation has to do with a memory module not being recognized. As we
all know memory modules are seated into specific slots on the motherboard,
and the cause of a module that is no longer or not recognized, IS NOT "OS
independent".


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Yep, the damage is done, as to how much the
image has degraded, it depends on the image quality
setting when you saved the photo in jpg format.
Even with the image quality set at its best or highest quality
option when you saved it, there is still some loss.

Do a test with PaintShopPro to see if you can
load one of your jpg files and then save it as TIFF.
Just remember what lost is lost but at least you will
not degrade the TIF image any further if you need to edit
it and save it again in TIFF format.

Check to see what PaintShopPro offers in the way
of TIFF options.
 
JS said:
Yep, the damage is done, as to how much the
image has degraded, it depends on the image quality
setting when you saved the photo in jpg format.
Even with the image quality set at its best or highest quality
option when you saved it, there is still some loss.
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BUT that loss can be pretty negligible. Let's not oversell the
uncompressed formats (like BMP - UGH, what a disk space hog).
 
You have a good point.

However I have used Operating Systems that
would never work with this type of memory no
matter how good the quality.

That said, it become apparent that the OS and the
Hardware are joined at the hip. Should any piece
of hardware fail and the OS may have a problem
carrying out its tasks. Should any part of the OS
get mucked up and the hardware may not function as intended.

If you go back a few years when Windows 98
was king of the hill, increasing the amount of memory
from 32MB to 64MB made a big difference in how
fast the OS and applications performed. For Win 98
128MB was the sweet spot.
 
For 4x5 prints jpg is fine. However
for archival purposes TIFF is better.

I scan in and save as BMP and they
are huge but after the first touch up
the photo, negative or positive (slide)
is saved as TIFF.
 
Not to throw gas on the fire but that's the reason I ask about memory in a
WinXP newsgroup.
My older Win98se systems ran fine on 128-256 meg while XP barely functions
with the same. I still have several 32 & 64 meg sticks. :)

While I/we may have got off subject with the photo scanning, my original
question did, I think, pretains to the functioning of WinXP.

Sorry if I opened up a 'bucket of worms' for some on here.
 
Again, thanks to all for your help and suggestion. Will copy instructions
and pass on to the 'group' doing the work.


JS said:
For 4x5 prints jpg is fine. However
for archival purposes TIFF is better.

I scan in and save as BMP and they
are huge but after the first touch up
the photo, negative or positive (slide)
is saved as TIFF.
Click to expand...
 
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