JPEG to...(?) for lossless imaging

[Player_1]

I read somewhere that JPG is a bad file format for pictures. Over time, the pictures begin to loose their quality. I read somewhere I could convert images to TIF to retain image quality, so I decided to convert the JPGs to TIFs.

After turning my 2 megapixel images, which were each about 300KB, I noticed the files size of each image increased to 5 megabytes. I thought to myself, "WOAH! That's too big!"

Isn't there a way to keep a decent image with a small file size?

 

[fmw]

"Over time" would mean editing over and over, I think. They don't lose data just because they "age." I'm not fond of TIFF either because of the file sizes and I use the PSD format in Photoshop for scanned film images. My digital images are stored in RAW which is more efficient than TIFF as well.

 

[TheCatch22]

yea JPEG or any other file format for that matter will never lose quality over "age" but after editing that is a diffrint story, i shoot in raw and store my meta data and origionals from there i have PSD's Tif's, Ai's and Jpegs it depends on what you are really doing because i use alot of pro software every day i have a wide variety of files and diffrint formats because there isnt that "perfect" one.