Digital BW, The Print

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>A few weeks ago we started to look into image compression for 
>e-mailing large files to clients, and we
>specifically started researching 'Stuffit'.
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>Harvey Ferdschneider
>partner, SKID Photography

Last week I tried the trail version of Genuine fractals print pro to 
up size an 35mm neg to 10x8, it took an hour to process on a G4 Mac 
with 1 gb memory. The original scan was 20 mg and the final print 
over 100mg! So I have decided to go for the MrSid photoshop plugin. 
It is claimed that a 20 mg can be reduced to 1 mg , opened in 
Photoshop without detail loss, worked on and saved either in MrSid or 
TIFF.

To use MrSid for compressing files for emailing or downloading, the 
receiver will have to use the free MrSid browser to open the file. 
And, the actual Photoshop plugin is only available for Mac but the 
files are cross platform.

If all this sounds confusing then blame LizardTech for a very dry 
presentation of their product!  More info on: 
http://www.lizardtech.com/

Jerry.