Home · Register · Join Upload & Sell

Moderated by: Fred Miranda
Username  

  New fredmiranda.com Mobile Site
  New Feature: SMS Notification alert
  New Feature: Buy & Sell Watchlist
  

FM Forums | Post-processing & Printing | Join Upload & Sell

  

Archive 2013 · An observation on TIFF compression in CS6 and LR4

  
 
bbbdco
Offline

Upload & Sell: Off
p.1 #1 · p.1 #1 · An observation on TIFF compression in CS6 and LR4


Can some one please explain this observation to me:

I took a flattened TIFF 16 image in CS6 and saved it with ZIP compression on my Mac computer.

I took the identical TIFF 16 image in LR4 and saved it with ZIP compression.

The results are as follows:

Size of original TIFF file: 83.1 MB

Size of TIFF saved with CS6 ZIP: 80.7 MB

Size of the same TIFF saved with LR4 ZIP: 69.7 MB

It's as if the LR4 version of ZIP compression works better than the CS6 version. Is this possible? I can't find any info on the internet to help me with this.

Dan



Jan 01, 2013 at 11:41 AM
WAYCOOL
Offline
• • • •
Upload & Sell: Off
p.1 #2 · p.1 #2 · An observation on TIFF compression in CS6 and LR4


I have no idea what's going on but it is possible zip a file in more than one way and get different compression.


Jan 01, 2013 at 01:05 PM
Greg Campbell
Offline
• • • •
Upload & Sell: Off
p.1 #3 · p.1 #3 · An observation on TIFF compression in CS6 and LR4


Must be one of those 'Mac things.'

Actually, there are many different ways to apply the basic Zip compression technique. (Technically, Zip is a different and somewhat more efficient compression scheme than the 'LZW' scheme used in a Tiff.) Whenever compressing, the computer has a window of data in which it tries to find duplicate data. Besides using different routines, different compression programs/implementations usually offer varying/user defined window (also called dictionary) sizes. I think most graphics formats, such as Tiff, Gif, etc., only looks at one row of pixels at a time, whereas a general purpose Zip program may have a window of many megabytes. The larger the window, and the more sophisticated the compression scheme, the greater the potential compression.



Jan 01, 2013 at 01:58 PM
morganb4
Offline
• • • • •
Upload & Sell: Off
p.1 #4 · p.1 #4 · An observation on TIFF compression in CS6 and LR4


Why do you use TIFF compression? srs question...


Jan 01, 2013 at 10:21 PM
bbbdco
Offline

Upload & Sell: Off
p.1 #5 · p.1 #5 · An observation on TIFF compression in CS6 and LR4


I do not use Tiff Compression. I was just researching it to see how much it would compress my files in case I wanted to change the way I save my photos. Obviously, LR4 does a better job at compression. I have about 10 Terabytes of photos, and was just considering a way to possibly save some room. But have not made any decisions. Everything is currently backed up to 3 separate systems (hard drives, RAID, Time Machine, etc.)

Dan



Jan 02, 2013 at 08:58 AM
morganb4
Offline
• • • • •
Upload & Sell: Off
p.1 #6 · p.1 #6 · An observation on TIFF compression in CS6 and LR4


Was asking because having compressed TIFFS gives you a performance hit in PS, in terms of opening and closing files.


Jan 02, 2013 at 06:10 PM
knower
Offline
• •
Upload & Sell: Off
p.1 #7 · p.1 #7 · An observation on TIFF compression in CS6 and LR4


It's not to exclude that Photoshop saves information in a different way than LR because of the header of the file.
This happens usually between different software and changes the ratio of the compression quite a bit.

Nothing to really worry about though

G.



Jan 04, 2013 at 01:06 PM





FM Forums | Post-processing & Printing | Join Upload & Sell

    
 

You are not logged in. Login or Register

Username       Or Reset password



This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.