Have recently come across several posts in numerous forums regarding the merits of saving processed Photoshop files (with multiple layers) as tiff files. My question regards what type, if any, compression should be used and should it be applied to the image (LZW vs ZIP) and/or to the layers (RLE vs ZIP). In other words, when you get to the tiff dialog box, for Image compression you have to choose between None, LZW or ZIP with none selected as the default, and under Layer Compression you have to choose between RLE or ZIP. Of note, a file saved without image compression but with RLE layer compression ended up at 630mg, but if saved with zip layer compression it came out to 398.47mg. Not much difference if saved with ZIP image and ZIP layer compression; 391.38.
So I am a little confused as to how this dialog box should be set up.
Thanks for the advice.