Um....Tiff to JPG?

[Sarah23]

OK, so I saved a bunch of RAW to TIFF, and now I am ready to save it as JPG so I can give it to the my friend on a CD.

I have it all open in photoshop....and there isnt an option when I go to "SaveAs" to save it as JPG.

Am I missing something?

 

[Big Mike]

Under file...there is a 'save as'...isn't there?

It may be that you have 16 bit files and you have to convert them to 8 bit before you can save them. That should be under the Image menu (I think).

 

[Socrates]

OK, so I saved a bunch of RAW to TIFF, and now I am ready to save it as JPG so I can give it to the my friend on a CD.

I have it all open in photoshop....and there isnt an option when I go to "SaveAs" to save it as JPG.

Am I missing something?

I have PSE and I can do it. Keep looking.

 

[kidchill]

Yah, goto image>mode>change to 8bit and then save as jpg

 

[Mike_E]

If you did save from 16 bit, your files would be way too big. There's little point in having a 10 meg .jpg to print a 4X6 .

 

[Sarah23]

ahh...thats it....its 16bit


THANKS!

 

[Mike_E]

BTW, just save the RAW files. There is no need to save to .tif (that I'm aware of anyway- they're about the same size and RAW has everything you need.).

 

[Sarah23]

the only reason i saved it to tif was because I wasnt done editing, but i wanted to be able to see a thumbnail so I didnt have to search for a picture and take the time to open each RAW (I have a dinosaur for a computer!)

I also just found a plug-in that will make it possible for me to see RAW thumbnails in Windows Explorer....so yay!

 

[Big Mike]

BTW, just save the RAW files. There is no need to save to .tif (that I'm aware of anyway- they're about the same size and RAW has everything you need.).

Can you save as a RAW file in Photoshop? I'm pretty sure you can't do that in the version of Photoshop that I use.
Also, make sure you don't save over your original file.

I often save as PSD (Photoshop file), which is the same size as TIFF files.

 

[Sarah23]

Yeah....i saved in TIFF in a different folder, and then converted all those to JPG. (which wasnt fun because I did them one at a time....i couldnt do a batch from 16bit to 8bit either...maybe you can and I just havent figured it out?)

 

[chinpokojed]

Yeah....i saved in TIFF in a different folder, and then converted all those to JPG. (which wasnt fun because I did them one at a time....i couldnt do a batch from 16bit to 8bit either...maybe you can and I just havent figured it out?)

What you needed is an action, from which you could batch the entire folder.

Open one of your images that is a 16 bit tif that you want to save as an 8 bit jpg.

Go to your actions and hit new action (looks like a post-it being peeled from the bottom left), give it a name, and hit record.

Then change it to 8 bit, and do a "save as" in jpg, close the image, then hit the stop button on your action window.

Delete the one jpg you just made.

Go to file -> automate -> batch, choose your action, choose your source folder, check both the "suppress" options, and set "Destination" to none.

That should do it, and it's a handy little action to keep for the next time

 

[Sarah23]

oh how neat!! I had just heard of actions the other day (someone had them for sale on their website) and i didnt know what in the world they were. THANKS!!!

 

[chinpokojed]

Oh yes actions can make your life MUCH easier. I have a group of probably 20 I use every day; doing things from adding border areas for printing, to specialized sharpening scripts.

I always make a copy of the data I'm batching, just in case my brain is broken and my action is wrong. That way you don't have a folder of borked files and no originals to go back to :er:

 

[Easy_Target]

BTW, just save the RAW files. There is no need to save to .tif (that I'm aware of anyway- they're about the same size and RAW has everything you need.).

Dude...NEVER save the changes onto the raw file...

Save as copy, always.

 

[atp_design]

OK, so I saved a bunch of RAW to TIFF, and now I am ready to save it as JPG so I can give it to the my friend on a CD.

I have it all open in photoshop....and there isnt an option when I go to "SaveAs" to save it as JPG.

Am I missing something?

perhaps you have a trial version of photoshop ?
and check your bit size under IMAGE / MODE