Hey there,

I've been making a website over the past few days for my father, who is a photographer. His photos are extremely high-res tiffs, (over 50mb each) and currently, i have over 18 of them on my website.

However, when I preview the whole website, they drastically lose their quality, to the point where you can't zoom in on them without them becoming blurry. However, in the actual Xara web designer 7 program, they are at full quality.

This leads me to ask my two questions:

1) Is the preview of the webpage a lower quality than what the actual finished product will be? To rephrase that, will the photos be full-res when the website is published, and they're just being displayed in a compressed way during the preview?

2) Why is it that although there are over 18 pictures of 50mb each, totalling over 900mb, the size of the website file on my desktop is only 350mb? This leads me to believe that the files are being compressed, which, as an artist, he can NOT have. The files on the web page need to remain full resolution TIFs.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, thank you.