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Chapter 12 Image Delivery > Rendered Delivery File Formats - Pg. 209

TWELVE imageeditingnecessary,andthenresaveit(SaveAs,or SaveforWebandDevices)asaJPEG. ThiscanalsobedoneviaImageProcessor,asdescribed earlierinthissection. DeliveringcameracaptureJPEGorTIFFisthenext step down in terms of control, but not necessarily quality. If the camera has been set up correctly, the exposure and the white balance are accurate, camera- generated JPEGs orTIFFs can be high-quality files. Gettingperfectwhitebalanceisdifficult,however,and whileturningcamerasharpeningoffisrecommended tokeepimagedestructiontoaminimum,itdoesmean thattheimagesthataremadewithcamerasusinglow- passfilterswillneedtobesharpenedandre-savedin ordertoappearsharpwhendisplayedorreproduced. containbothvectorandrasterdata,suchasthosefrom pagelayoutprogramssuchasInDesignandQuarkX- Press.OnefeatureofPDFisthatitsupportspassword protection,althoughthisfeaturehaslimitedreal-world functionality. Some publishers and service bureaus specify EPS (encapsulated postscript) as a preferred format,butwerecommendthatyouonlyusethisdeliv- eryformatifitisspecificallyrequested.Somemuseums havestandardizedonJPEG2000duetoitsenhanced feature set, which includes improved lossy as well as completely lossless compression. JPEG 2000 is not widelysupportedbyWebbrowsersandisgenerallynot usedintheprofessionalphotographic,print,ordesign community. Standard JPEG is probably the most common deliv-