I scanned pictures and they accidentally got saved as tiff instead of jpg or jpeg how can i switch it?

Question

i know i can switch it to jpg but i don't wanna have to rescan all the pictures and i'm off to college tomorrow...also i tried typing jpg in the file name and it worked cept i can't add them on facebook

Answer 1

put the tiffs on the desktop, and paste the following code into notepad and save it as ---> all files and make the extension .bat when saving.

Title Image Format Converter

@echo off

echo.

echo Desktop Image converter by Alex Staples

echo.

set/p CHG1=Extension of current format:

echo.

set/p CHG2=Extension of format to convert to:

cd\

cd documents and settings

cd compaq_administrator

cd desktop

md %CHG1%

cd\

cd documents and settings

cd compaq_administrator

cd desktop

copy *.%CHG1% %CHG1%

cd\

cd documents and settings

cd compaq_administrator

cd desktop

ren ?????????????????????????????.%CHG1% ?????????????????????????????.%CHG2%

PAUSE

Answer 2

Do not just rename the file. Open file with MSPaint (usually in Start/Programs/Accessories) and click File - Save As. Select Save As Type .jpg .... and save the file.  This is for Windows OS only.

The other way to open is to right click on the file and select Open With..and select Paint.

Answer 3

Hello From the Tech:

Simply Open any Photo program and Open the photo

Click

File > Save as and in the drop down under the file name change to jpg and resave the file to your documents.  The program will automatically reformat the pictures to the desired save type.

Have a gr8 day,

NightHawk

Answer 4

Somewhere in your scanner's properties will be a file format option, usually you can select JPG, BMP or TIFF.

Answer 5

One way to do it would be to open the files in some sort of graphic editing software (photoshop etc.) and simply resave them from there as JPEG images.

Another way would be to do a google search for an image format converter, I'm sure you can find some free ones.

Good luck!

Answer 6

try to rename it to .jpg

Answer 7

Download Irfanview (google it).