Digital BW, The Print

> From: Frank Jay
> 
> Thank you Jim, that is an answer to part of my 
> question....the rest is...So, before prnting, even though I 
> have done simple edits in the Adobe Raw processing, I can 
> only print that image after it is converted from RAW to Tiff 
> or Jpeg???..I use tiff.

TIFF is just a file format. Whether you save your image as a TIFF file after
opening the raw file is totally separate from whether you print it. When you
open a file into Photoshop, whether it was a raw file, a TIFF file, or
whatever, it's no longer a file, it's just a bunch of pixel data in RAM
which Photoshop can operate on, including send to a printer. So it's
entirely possible to open a raw file into Photoshop, edit it, print it, and
never save the edited version anywhere, in which case it never takes the
form of a TIFF file.

The only real restriction is that assuming you do want to save your edited
image, you can't save it as a raw file, that being a read-only file format;
you have to choose some other format like TIFF, JPEG or PSD. But again, how
you save it has nothing to do with printing it.

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Ciao,               Paul D. DeRocco
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