Ann, You said, " Scan anything I have to scan as a TIF, using the suggested sizes in Ottawa TMG Group guides using info..." Would like to clarify my recommendations in order to avoid miscommunication or possible misunderstanding. Similar to other folks recommendations, I typically scan family history photos, documents, certificates, etc in "tif" format as you note above. I do not scan "using the suggested sizes in Ottawa TMG Group guides" (your comment above). Instead, I scan in "high resolution," mostly 600 dpi, 24 bit color and sometimes higher e.g., slides and very small photos at 1200 dpi (or higher). One of the more recent Ottawa presentations can be found here: http://ottawa-tmg-ug.ca/articles_&_presentations_archives_2014.htm, the presentation titled "Suggested Image Sizes for TMG & Second Site - a Revisit, by David Walker (11 January, 2014)." The suggested sizes in the chart are made for viewing on the internet, specifically in a Second Site website. The Ottawa report recommends scanning at high resolution and notes that the chart sizes are achieved by "re-sizing" images based on their purpose / use and not a one size for all. I do use batch conversions, for selected similar types of images and sometimes go one by one, it varies. Example: Census pages are mostly large size to begin with and if you downsize to one size fits all, they may be too small to view/read. Some TMG users (me included) use a portrait (head shot) sometimes cropped out of a photo for the TMG primary exhibit. This portrait size is obviously smaller than a census document. If I have a folder of scanned images say... from an old photo album, I may batch re-size the "landscape" photos separate from the "portrait" oriented photos. A couple additional comments regarding your list message below. Second Site's alternative exhibit folder (for TMG exhibits) cannot contain subfolders (to the best of my knowledge it is one folder for all exhibits). The exhibits in the SS alternative exhibit folder do have to be identical in name to the TMG exhibits (which may be in one or many folder or subfolders). You do not need a SS alternative exhibit for each TMG exhibit; it is there to use if you want to downsize an image for better website viewing. You can "see" the difference for yourself if you make a SS website and include images, and view ones that you did not downsize; if it was scanned or saved at a higher resolution or say... 300 or 600 dpi instead of say... 95 dpi the image will be hugely oversized on the screen and you have to scroll huge amounts around (not very effective to view).f Also, note that SS provides options to include "exhibit galleries" and "image galleries" in websites. Exhibit galleries are made from TMG exhibits. Image galleries can be any images and do not have to be TMG exhibits. So, for example, I include image galleries, sometimes from say... an old tintype photo album where I don't want to attach the tintype images as TMG exhibits. Similarly, for an old wedding album, etc. In TMG, I may add an event noting and describing the old tintype or wedding album, etc, and include a sentence (hidden from TMG reports) providing a link in a SS website to the "image gallery." These image gallery "images" are located in the SS input folder and in my case, I organize them in subfolders and they have nothing to do with the SS alternative exhibits folder. Sorry if this is confusing, but it may provide you or others some ideas to explore further. Tom M. -----Original Message----- From: tmg-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:tmg-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Ann Carson via Sent: Thursday, July 09, 2015 7:06 PM To: TMG@rootsweb.com Subject: [TMG] TMG exhibits for Second Site. (Was bmp versus jpg) Thanks everyone for the excellent help with my jpg re bmp question. It is greatly appreciated. (Sorry about the delay in responding. Have been looking after 3 young grandchildren while their parents are overseas.) Here is my general plan now so would be glad to know if any of this is off-beam. Also have a few questions. 1. I have IrfanView already thanks to previous advice from Lee, and will download Paint.Net. Will also look at Picsizer thanks Betty. Will use these to format images for Second Site output. 2. Scan anything I have to scan as a TIF, using the suggested sizes in Ottawa TMG Group guides and info from Tom and others on this list. Thanks John and Denis for the advice re .bmps not being acceptable for websites/Second Site. Drama averted. 3. Save any JPG image as a TIF before editing it, edit, resave as a JPG. (I was already doing this most of the time but to date have just focussed on obtaining the best available image in whatever format I can - saving it in my TMG Exhibits folders - so haven't done a lot of editing.) 4. I have many subfolders in my TMG exhibits folder so I will create a separate Second Site folder/s? - for the exhibits for just the 6000 people I'm focussed on - and will then batch convert anything necessary to .jpgs. A couple of questions here: 1. Does the Second Site folder structure have to be exactly the same as the TMG folder structure, or could I use just one folder for all Second Site images? (It looks as though I could use just one folder.) 2. Most of my images in my TMG Exhibits folder and sub-folders are jpg, with quite a few PNGs and TIFS and not so many GIFs and BMPs. When I batch convert can I select the TIFs and BMPs out or must the conversion be for everything in a particular folder? Thanks once again to the list for the advice and help Ann The TMG archive is found here: http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/TMG/ Instructions on how to subscribe to TMG: http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/other/Software/TMG.html ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TMG-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message