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I saved the captured image in a GIF (or TIFF) file format but the file size is pretty big. Whats going on?

April 26, 2017big captured file format GIF image Pretty Saved size TIFF

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I saved the captured image in a GIF (or TIFF) file format but the file size is pretty big. Whats going on?

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LZW compression for GIF and TIFF files is not supported. To use this file compression scheme a license has to be obtained from Unisys Corporation. If you need LZW compression, many image file editors have obtained the license and support this scheme.