Washed Out Colours - tif to jpg

The problem is probably that you can't always have to same range of colours in a JPEG image that you can in a tiff image. TIFF images have an 8 or (usually) 16bit colour palette (erg 2^8 or 2^16 colours). Most JPEG encoders only support 8bit colour. However the encoding algorithms vary greatly from software package to package.

If you can't find another package with more suitable colour support, then i'd recomend reducing the colour depth of the TIFF into 8bit, which should provide you with some sort of choices.

The other factor could be the compression. TIFF files can be uncompressed, lossless compressed, or lossy-compressed.
JPG files are all lossy-compressed based on a grid. Blocky artifacts and softness at boundaries are sometimes caused by having the compression ration of the JPEG a bit to high, overly compressing the file.
 
What i've done here is a print screen, then opened paint and clicked edit/paste, then i trimmed it and saved as a jpeg - long way round but hey, it works :)

pig.JPG
 
Eeeek! I'm still getting a purple pig! But that's now from a JPG.

*confused*

OK, I've done a screen capture of your JPG and uploaded it. What do you see?

piggy7vy.jpg
 
Last edited:
Well i don't know whats going on with the pink piggys!! But from the origional two, loaded in PSP they look very similar, with the jpeg one having some jpeg compression artefacts??

Not sure what you mean by washed out? To remove the Jpecg Artefacts just lower the compression when you save it.
 
Sorry for the late reply......

Just bumping this thread up to remind me to try your suggestions tomorrow. I'm sure you're all desperate to know the outcome ;)

Browsers load .tif images as quicktime files for some reason, guess that explains purple pig syndrome??
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom