Printing and Imaging Services

Image File Formats

Photoshop (PSD) files

Adobe Photoshop is the industry-standard image manipulation prograp. The PSD file format is the native file format for Photoshop and can of course store all the working information about colour correction layers and so on. If you have been working with your own images in Photoshop then this is the best format in which to send them to us.

TIFF files (tagged image file format)

TIFF is a non-proprietory image file format and is another good format for sending images.

JPEG files

This is the format most commonly used by digital cameras. The format uses a lossy compression algorithm, which means that if you set a high compression level when you save a file, the file size will be significantly smaller, but at the expense of detail. Lack of detail may be noticable if you make large prints from the files. If sending us JPEGs for printing, please save at the highest quality (i.e. lowest compression) setting.

PDF (Adobe Acrobat) files

PDF is commonly thought of as a format for complete documents, but it is also quite adequate as a format for image files.

Note that the GIF format is not suitable for images intended for high quality images as the format can only store 256 different colours in an image.