Anyone do this?<BR><BR>I can get gdiplus to open tif files in the 48 bit format. Naturally this doesn't do much for 8bit/color image files, but I digress.<BR><BR>First off, WTF is the algorithm that ...

The GIMP photo editing software includes the ability to convert your JPEG image files into many other file types, including a TIFF file. A wide variety of file formats are compatible with GIMP, ...

You'd only see a real difference with really really large files. If you were pulling them over the network, then compressed files might be faster, depending on the file size, network speeds, and ...