RE: TIF or GIF?

["Brierley, Sean" <Sean -at- Quodata -dot- Com>]

Thanks.

Just wanted and got confirmation of my understanding.

Cheers,

Sean<br>
sean -at- quodata -dot- com

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Dick Margulis [SMTP:margulis -at- mail -dot- fiam -dot- net]
> Sent:	Wednesday, January 17, 2001 2:03 PM
> To:	TECHWR-L
> Subject:	RE: TIF or GIF?
> 
> Brierley, Sean wrote:
> 
> >I did not think GIF was lossy. Comments?
> >
> >As for limitations, GIF is limited to 256 colors. If that matters. TIFF
> >supports CMYK values.
> >
> 
> 
> Well, if it compresses your color space to 256 colors and dithers the
> rest, that's lossy in my book. As for TIFF, while it supports CMYK, I
> generally use RGB and let the print driver do the conversion to CMYK. The
> principal inputs for TIFFs are monitors, digital cameras, etc., that work
> in RGB space, not CMYK space, so it's just easier.

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