filmscanners: Encoding/compression Was:CD storage

[Tom Christiansen <tomchr@softhome.net>]

Hi,

>Hi everyone,If you are storing lots of images its worth using Photoshops
>LZW compression,If you have Photoshop that is .It will save a fair bit
>of space and wont degrade your hard won image like Jpeg does.

I would assume that LZW is a sort of runlength encoding or otherwise 
non-destructive compression. There is no reason not to use it.

Otherwise I believe GIF is a compressed bitmap format. You don't loose any 
quality by exporting to GIF, but your files get significantly smaller than 
with TIFF/BMP.


Tom