Jpeg vs. Tiff- Why did you do it?

After receiving a few emails and calls from our customers about our decision to discontinue offering Tiff images, we felt compelled to give you a brief overview of why we made this decision.

Is quality really an issue here? Prior to making the decision to discontinue offering the Tiff files, we did extensive testing and found no noticeable quality loss when comparing a Tiff image to the same image as a Jpeg level 12.

After discovering that, we then looked at our download records to see what file formats our customers were downloading and found that less than 1% of our entire customer base downloaded the Tiff file format.

Another thing that we considered was, for the last three years, none of our contributing photographers submitted Tiff files or scanned images, all of the images submitted were digital.

All that said, we found that Jpeg file formats allow for quicker download times and free up storage space, a plus for the time-crunched designer that needs to download a lot of images.

And best of all, by offering jpeg file formats instead of the larger tiff formats we will be able to serve more images to our customers each month. We are currently in the process of adding an image server to increase our product offerings and, by offering the smaller jpeg file formats, it will help us to expedite the time it will take to upload new content. This will allow us to upload 1000's of new images per month instead of the 400+ new images we currently offer. Visit our site this month and begin to see difference in the quantity of image uploads.

Our intent is to be able to give you more content and faster delivery all at an affordable price.