Jpeg to TIFF conversion

I took a jpeg image and converted it to TIFF on my computer. The number of bytes for the image went up by about a factor of 10. Did I "recover" those compressed bytes or did I not accomplish anything at all?

Answer:

By converting to TIFF you are not actually "recovering" any data lost by the data compression in the JPEG file format. Once saved as a JPEG file the compression and associated "lost data" will not be recovered by converting it to another format. What you can do by saving a file in an uncompressed format like TIFF is to avoid any future loss of data that could be caused by re-saving an edited image in JPEG format again.

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