HowTo: Gramps: Media Clean Up 3 (JPEG Versions of TIFF Objects) (2024)

The next topic that I wish to cover is image formats. I use webtrees to run my Harvey History Family Tree site. It allows TIFF image files to be attached but it does not display them. So I would like to have the JPEG image files alongside the TIFF. I need to locate these files, convert then link them. Why keep both? TIFF is a lossless format while JPEG is a lossy format. Each time a JPEG file is re-saved (recompressed) a small amount if its quality is lost – this does not happen with TIFF. So JPEG is used for displaying while TIFF is used for editing. So it is often good to have both version of a file.

I will show you how to create a JPEG version of a TIFF file but more importantly make sure the two versions have linked information attached (eg: Citations, Notes, Attributes, etc).

Here is how...