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mtman
May 11, 2003, 6:17 PM
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i have several photos that i have scanned form slides in to photo shop at school (where we have 4 new G4's) and i want to transfer them to my home computer which is a PC and i was wondering how i would do that. im able to burn them on to a CD but i don't know what file type to save them as so my PC can read it.
Dose any one know how ?
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tim
May 11, 2003, 6:20 PM
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Save them as TIFFs.
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renobdarb
May 11, 2003, 7:15 PM
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If you're going to burn a CD and have plenty of space, I would recommend saving them as TIFFs and save them seperately as high quality JPEGs. Some TIFFs saved on Macs can't be opened on PCs for whatever reason, but JPEGs will open 99% of the time. Just remember that the TIFF will be a better file, but if you're just going to email them or print out small photos JPEGs are the way to go...
-brad
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apollodorus
May 11, 2003, 9:48 PM
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I've had trouble getting JPGs edited on a Mac to work on a PC. They were saved to CD, but the Windows Photoshop didn't recognize them.
What I did was e-mail them from the Mac, and they opened right up on the PC. The MIME encoding process apparently provided the necessary conversion.
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climbs4fun
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May 12, 2003, 12:24 AM
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in order for your pc to see a mac .jpg, you need to make sure that it is rgb and NOT cmyk. that may be your problem.
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wantaberockclimber
May 12, 2003, 10:16 PM
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I would save them as a photo shop image.
Steve
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kriso9tails
May 13, 2003, 9:46 AM
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At school we used both pc and mac, and I’ve never really had any trouble. As previously stated, save as a tiff in photoshop. It should offer the byte order as MAC or IBM PC. Mac can read both, but IBM cannot seem to.
Or you could just step into the light and buy a mac. =p
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dbrayack
May 13, 2003, 11:36 AM
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The thing about PC and Mac is that a Mac will ready a PC, but a PC won't read a Mac, what you should do is email it to yourself or maybe upload it to geocities or something. The internet is a good way to get stuff transfered. Any web page format will work, tiff, jpg, gif. You can even upload them here or something then do a "Save As" when you get home.
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kcrag
May 14, 2003, 4:21 AM
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I work with both mac and pc. In my experience, an image that was saved as a .psd file on my mac is easily read by my pc (via cdrom). I'm working with a G4, as well. Hopefully you won't have a problem with a .psd file. Try it.
-k.
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dirko
May 14, 2003, 9:19 PM
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Make sure that your Mac adds the file extension, or else you will be hosed. Photoshop 5.5 doesn't do it, but 7 should. Also, be very, very careful about mating PC and Mac formatted zip disks. It may work once, it may work twice, hell it worked dozens of times for me, but sooner of later your zip drive will be burning in computer hell and you will be wishing your files were backed up.
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climberwa
May 14, 2003, 10:29 PM
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I have found when tranferring files from my Mac to PC, that even if your mac does not put and extension on the file, you can add a .tif or .jpg and that should work.
Although. buy a mac. they rule.
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ubotch
May 14, 2003, 10:46 PM
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It seems like if you are burning the pics to a cd you are probably going to have plenty of extra room for saving stuff so I would save the files in several different ways. Most of them should open up fine on a pc but who know what little glitches you will find. Just save a bunch of different ways and one of them has to work...right?
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slcliffdiver
May 15, 2003, 2:30 AM
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One thing that can helps if you strip the mac resource fork off of the image. Graphics Converter Pro for mac shareware $20 has options to save without the resource fork. I think some pc programs just ignor the resource fork and others get stuck. If you find a pc program that can open the pics you can probably save a copy that will work in the other programs. E-mailing probably does the same thing. Also I've noticed ftping strips of the resource fork when I've ftp'd to the server and then downloaded the image from the server. I actually did this for a while to strip off the resource forks so I could transfere file from my home mac to the school pc via disk (PC formatted).
Hope this helps
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