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My standard practice for saving images in Photoshop for press has long been to use the TIFF format with LZW compression–being a lossless compression method, I figured LZW would reduce file sizes without degrading the image. Results have always been good.
Recently, though, I had a service provider request that I leave my TIFFs uncompressed, and their opinion was that LZW affected image quality. I was a little surprised, but chalked it up to hyper-caution on their part.
Then the other week I was reading an Adobe guidebook and it said to leave TIFFs uncompressed also when placing into InDesign for press.
What’s the story on this? What are other people doing?
Recently, though, I had a service provider request that I leave my TIFFs uncompressed, and their opinion was that LZW affected image quality. I was a little surprised, but chalked it up to hyper-caution on their part.
Then the other week I was reading an Adobe guidebook and it said to leave TIFFs uncompressed also when placing into InDesign for press.
What’s the story on this? What are other people doing?
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