can't save tiff to jpeg

I shot in raw, did some post processing in the raw dialog box and then saved as a tiff with the intent of doing further processing in cs2 and then saving as a jpeg. When I opened the tiff files in cs2, processed and tried to save as a jpeg it wouldn't even give me that option. Any ideas what is going on?

I had to reopen the raw file and save from there as a jpeg and then do the processing. I'm really hoping that this isn't my only choice because I just processed about 500 wedding photos from raw to tiff with the intent or going tiff to jpeg and it would be really lousy if I had to reopen and resave all of them.

 

Image>Mode>8-bit

Now you can save in jpeg, but as a result, you have a fraction of the quality.

 

Yep, that's I would suggest doing....I would recommend you leave it Tiff for editing/viewing and then change it to JPG when you're ready to post it!!!

 

Thanks guys.

 

or you can just open the image in paint as tiff and just click save and this will automatically change it to jpg

 

paint? I doubt that will resave in a very high quality.. lol