Spehro, Chops and Herbert,

Y'all are right... I'm not sure what I was doing before
but I tried it again and I got:

116 kB 800x600 jpeg
1167 kB 800x600 tiff

which is much more reasonable.

Thanks for making me look again at what I was doing!!!

Carey

Herbert Graf wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-02-08 at 21:01 -0500, Carey Fisher wrote:
>   
>> I'm using Irfanview (www.irfanview.com) to work with some photos.
>> Converting a jpeg of about 1MB, 800x600, to an uncompressed
>> tiff gives me over 11MB.  Even a LZW compressed tiff is over 8MB.
>> Is this right?  I know tiffs are large but this seems excessive.
>>     
>
> Assuming zero compression:
>
> 800x600*3 (assuming 24bit/pixel) = 1,440,000 bytes
>
> Something is wrong. Are you sure you have your resolution right?
>
> TTYL
>   
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