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by Bill Morales on Sat Feb 08, 2025 7:22 am

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Hi all, I have always saved my PS work as Tiff files. These files can get pretty large. I recently have been saving my Tiff files as zip. It only takes a few seconds longer and the saved files are much smaller. Is there any disadvantage that I am unaware of to saving files this way? Should I be saving my work in some other way now? What say you? Thanks!

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by david fletcher on Fri Feb 14, 2025 11:53 am

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Not overly sure I'm the best person to answer Bill, but I'll try.

Here's a link to some thoughts on the pro's and cons.

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I sort of get it for sending files, but there seems a few potential drawbacks for storage. (corruption possibilities). Anyway, am neutral so just see this as info.
For what it's worth, I still save my files on external hard drives. (just been getting bigger ones over the years...

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by Bill Morales on Fri Feb 14, 2025 3:43 pm

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Thanks for the reply, David. Yeah, tried saving a few tiffs as zip under the "layer compression". The files are MUCH smaller than the regular tiffs. Just wasn't sure if there were drawbacks to doing this. I read a few things saying it was ok, just took longer to save.
I also keep lots on backup drives but like keeping my better stuff on my computer also. I will check out your link, thanks again.

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by E.J. Peiker on Fri Feb 21, 2025 8:58 am

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It's basically just a cost of a bit of extra time. Also if sharing or publishing your work, often publishers can't open these files. I do the same as you but just change the format to uncompressed TIF files prior to sending files to a publisher.

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by Bill Morales on Fri Feb 21, 2025 9:06 am

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Great, thanks so much E.J.!

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