advice: converting to JPEG with ImageReady

bhogle

Hello - I have been converting all of my 16 bit TIFF's to JPEG's using PS CS2's Image Ready save for web feature. I generally am able to convert the files at maximum quality. I haven't noticed any compression artifacts.

Am I going about this the right way? Is this a rotten way to convert TIFF's to JPEG's for Smugmug?

Any advice would be really appreciated. :barb

BinaryFx

If I remember correctly, IR had an option to include metadata (other than ICC profile), which you may or may not wish to use or appear in your images. I think this was removed in CS3 when IR was discontinued, however I think it is back in CS4...as you see my memory is not too clear, ha! Is metadata important to your online images?

Anyway, SFW in Photoshop or ImageReady is usually the best way to produce the smallest online JPEG with no metadata. I use file/save as "JPEG" a lot as I am in prepress and when I send a JPEG to a client the print size metadata is important (presuming that they are using software that understands print size).

SFW can sometimes slow down or choke on some large files, so some folk would create an action that would first dupe, resize and convert to sRGB first, before calling SFW.


Hope this helps,

Stephen Marsh

http://members.ozemail.com.au/~binaryfx/
http://prepression.blogspot.com/

bhogle

That's very helpful, thank you!

Yes, metadata isn't important to me. thanks.