Re: TIFF or JPEG??

Posted by Gabriel Landini on Mar 21, 2008; 5:36pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/TIFF-or-JPEG-tp3696781p3696784.html

On Friday 21 March 2008, RES08 wrote:
> Hello, im extremely new to using imagej and i was just wondering if it is
> better to use images saved as TIFFs or JPEG? At the minute the images im
> using are saved as JPEGs on the camera and computer, however before using
> them in imageJ i save them as TIFFs!

Point 4 in here tells you why one should not use jpegs in image analysis:
http://imagejdocu.tudor.lu/imagej-documentation-wiki/faq/what-should-i-do-before-start-using-imagej-in-my-project

If you already have jpegs, your images are already lossy and the only solution
is to grab images again.

Cheers

Gabriel