You can use a variety of compression methods with TIFF files including JPG Compression (but note that not all applications will be able to read them!)
Their image probably has fewer pixels, eh?
If not, they may have saved with LZW compression (non lossy).
Mac
Also make sure you do not have layers and Alpha channels, those can increase the size of a TIFF considerably.
I need to create a tif file and make it as small in size as humanly possible.
My guess is that a 1" x 1" bilevel bitmap @ 1ppi, containing a single black or white pixel, would fit the bill here. Beside file overhead, that would be 1 bit. No compression needed there… XD
Noise also adds to the size of a compressed TIFF. RUn a Median filter over the file to clean up noise. The simpler the image, the better the compression you will get. For example, if you print out a logo from Illustrator, scan it, then save as a bitmap TIF you will get a larger file than if you rasterized the Illustator file to the same size.
Scott,
That has nothing to do with noise.
It has to do with the fact that one is a raster image and the other is a vector image.
Rene
Sorry, but the fact that AI is vector is the irrelevant information here. TIF is a raster format, so any AI file will be rasterized when it is saves as a TIF. The fact that is started as a vector will have no difference to the file size, although many vector images will be smaller if they use large areas of flat color, which compresses better than gradients.
Which is what Scott said.
Don,
You’re right, I misread what Scott wrote. (Which also implies that Scott was right)
