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Mike..... - 27 Jun 2008 11:49 GMT

A friend used to print any photos I sold as prints for me and any
commercial sales I just sent a .tiff file. Now he has stopped and as
stopgap i'm using photobox, who just accept jpegs. I'm sure there must be
better quality out there who print from the better quality tiff or raw? Any
recommendations? Also I'm not sure if I should send to printer unsharpened
or follow advice to set radius to 2 (for high res image of 300 ppi) and
apply some sharpening. Photobox didnt even reply to that question.

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savvo - 27 Jun 2008 19:32 GMT

> A friend used to print any photos I sold as prints for me and any
> commercial sales I just sent a .tiff file. Now he has stopped and as
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> or follow advice to set radius to 2 (for high res image of 300 ppi) and
> apply some sharpening. Photobox didnt even reply to that question.

A jpeg at minimum compression will show no artefacts. Unless your
software is disfunctional.

I always apply just enough sharpening which comes in around a radius of
0.6. YMWV depending on your resolution (your 300ppi tells no one
anything about your image resolution.)

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King Bruno the Questionable - 30 Jun 2008 23:48 GMT

>> A friend used to print any photos I sold as prints for me and any
>> commercial sales I just sent a .tiff file. Now he has stopped and as
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> A jpeg at minimum compression will show no artefacts. Unless your
> software is disfunctional.

Or even dysfunctional.

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