Q:

A book complied of photographs, supplied as tiffs, but would pdfs be better?

I'm design a book complied of photographs, supplied as tiffs, but would pdfs be better? I've used tiff in full Colour print magazines before but it has been suggested I use them as PDFs. Is this correct for original photos too?

A:

No, no...
Pdf should be the output of the composed page.
Leave your photos as tif, then you make the design let us say in InDesign, you put the page number, the measurements of the page, some text, etc. And then the output should be as pdf, with the proper settings.
They are not that interchangable. They are used in diferent steps of the process.

