# Re: "Standard" or "best" image format?

From: pixel fairy (pixelfairy@yahoo.com)
Date: Sat May 13 2000 - 16:10:24 PDT

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  --- Steve Underwood <steveu@coppice.org> wrote:
  > I don't think you really describe the full horror of
  > TIFF incompatibility.
  > Colour TIFF isn't as bad as the black and white form
  > used for FAXes, but

  another problem is again, photoshop. for some reason
  it stores black and white images as 2 channel tiffs
  that nothing in linux can read.

  in other words, save as tiff, but be carefull about
  asking for tiff. if dealing with photoshop users, ask
  for PSD which the gimp can read and turn into a proper
  tiff. (at least proper for most unix apps)

  > bit tag heavy. The
  > problem is the majority of implementations suck big
  > time.

  libtiff is so easy to use...
  makes it easy to just want to go with the generic
  interfaces and just move on to some other part of what
  your working on...

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