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holycowelsie · #1 (**permalink**) 02-10-2008

I need to scan some pictures, fix them in PSP, save them put them into fotofusion

and then put them into a book on Shutterfly.
I'm worried about the quality of the photo because it will be saved so many times. I'm thinking I would
save the scanned image as a TIF, fix in PSP and save as a JPG and then put in a collage or scrapbook page
in fotofusion in order to make a book in shutterfly. These images would be save 3X, scanning, saving from PSP,
and then saving from Fotofusion.

How would you handle this in order to keep picture quality and create a manageable size image to create
layouts?

Thanks,

Laurie

arti-bytes · #2 (**permalink**) 02-10-2008

You can scan and save as TIF or PSD with no compression and you will have no image loss when you save it.
Image correction can be done in PSP where you would save at the highest quality possible as JPG.
With CS3, i scan directly into the program using "import>scanner" and it skips the need of the first save.

Is there any reason why you don't use PSP to create the collage or scrapbook layout instead of FotoFusion? It would cut out one of the steps as saving as a JPG, so you wouldn't have much image loss that way.

holycowelsie · #3 (**permalink**) 02-10-2008

Thanks for getting me thinking, I just was making it more difficult than it was, I can save as Tiff or PSD, then fix the photo and put directly into the layout and save the layout, only 2 saves......duh. Of course that takes fotofusion out of the process, I really like it for the collages I can make. I wanted to quickly create a book with collages so that I could consolidate baby's first year, etc. Not alot of scrapbook elements except for maybe the background paper. Of course you cannot fix the pics in fotofusion, therefore, I would have to scan/fix save, put in layout and save. I wouldn't have the luxury of scanning a bunch and fixing later and then putting into fotofusion. Anyway I hope this rant makes sense. Bottom line I would really like to use fotofusion if anyone has anymore ideas.

Thanks

Pesto126 · #4 (**permalink**) 02-10-2008

What is the problem with saving? You should scan in photoshop using the Import -> scanner as mentioned above... then, make all your adjustments, etc to the scan using layers. Save as a .tiff and import into fotofusion... if ff must take .jpgs, then either just save as .jpg and ignore the tiff or save both copies. You can save the tiff as many times as you'd like.. nothing wrong will happen.

And.. just as an fyi... you can use LZH compession on a tiff file and it wont' affect anything...

Tracey R (Haley64) · #5 (**permalink**) 02-10-2008

Just throwing this out here, PSP can save as a .psd also without loss of info.
It also wouldn't lose any quality if you saved it 100 times if you use the native .psp extension but then FF probably doesn't understand that.

Pesto126 · #6 (**permalink**) 02-10-2008

Sorry.. I have Photoshop on my brain!! yes.. I meant to say PSP as well...

tlccreates · #7 (**permalink**) 02-11-2008

I worked on a big project:
scanned in photos, save as highest quality jpg
some needed tweaking in photoshop - save again at highest quality
use in FotoFusion to create LO
render page as jpg using 300dpi and highest quality
Then had the book bound by Blurb.com

120 pages of LOs bout my siblings and our family tree. I had 7 copies made for my siblings. They were a huge hit at Christmsa !

I was very pleased and never noticed any jpg artifacts. Some of my photo tweaking was done using FF's features. But I also had extractions and clean ups done in photoshop. I have since made 2 more books (only 20 pagers this time) and look forward to making more. My photo printer has not been working for about 6 months but I am getting by with the laser printer and by having my LOs bound into books.

Pesto126 · #8 (**permalink**) 02-11-2008

There is a huge misconception about .jpg degradation associated with saving them repeatedly... it depends solely on what you actually do to the .jpg that determines if you will lose pixels when saving. For most users, the slight degradation you get with multiple saves is so minimal it really is an over-hyped issue.

However, it really is safer to just use .tiff, .psp or .psd files in any event. It is simple to convert them to .jpg when you need to use them for outside printing or web publishing.. and then you can delete the .jpg. Your master becomes the layered file and you generate temp copies as needed from them.