Ahhhhh RAW help!!

[filemanager]

I did my first session in RAW today, and my images came out beautiful!

While working on them I saved them as .psd

The final image that I'm giving to the client I saved as a JPEG... but the JPEG's colors aren't NEARLY as beautiful as the .psd!!

Did I do something wrong?!

[nikonkid]

JPG compresses the data significantly, so a little loss is normal. Do you have any export quality settings at maximum?

[filemanager]

I fixed it YAY!

The color profile was set to Adobe RGB instead of sRGB.

Edit > Convert Profile in photoshop fixed it. Whew! Crisis averted! lol

[Photologyst]

Save them in sRGB, 300 ppi, TIFF to give high quality to clients. For smaller prints go JPG.

PS is for you to save your layers.

[teaking]

When it comes to printing does TIFF offer higher quality prints vs JPEG?

I thought there was no advantage printing from a TIFF than a JPEG as long as both files are exported from the same master file. The JPEGs colour range is more than we can perceive and the dynamic range is more than a printer can output so in a printing capacity both files will output very similar if not identical results.

[RecurrentNerve]

TIFF is lossless, JPEG is lossy. Might not be perceivable with a high quality JPEG but no point in not getting the best results you can.

[teaking]

Thats true and very relavant for home printing.

I suppose I was thinking if your client your sending the files to is having the images printed elsewhere most if not all printers accept JPEG where fewer accept TIFF.

But something to bear in mind a very interesting topic.

[RecurrentNerve]

Any printer that uses Windows can handle TIFF, which opens at the very least in the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer. OSX opens TIFF in Preview.

[teaking]

Yes thats true, and a very good point for all people printing at home.

I guess I worded my post wrong I meant to say when handing a file to someone else who will be taking over printing and getting it printed out side of your current workflow including your usual print labs. It may be best to supply JPEG as not all printers, print shops etc will handle TIFF formats in theory they can and it may just be that they dont have a windows PC connected up to there print machine and are printing direct with no TIFF support, or dont like the file sizes. Which is lazyness!!

But usualy JPEG is universally accepted especialy If you havent checked first if they support TIFF and the results will be on par with TIFF.

For home printing I see no reason not to save to TIFF if not only for an archive format as well as print.