Save to which format?

Say I'm editing a photo in Photoshop and want to save it for printing later by anothe software package. What format (eg. .bmp, .jpg, etc.) should I save it to in order to get the best quality picture?

Tom

For best quality and most versatility, I'd suggest .TIFF.

Ditto.

TIFF is still the most universal of photo image formats for maintaining detail and quality.

I agree, TIFF is high quality and highly compatible. I use PSD myself, since I don't plan to use any other software and many programs can read PSD anyway.

I don't save to a psd & just rewrite to the original tiff to avoid two big files on my hard drive when just one will do.
RSE is a great converter & I use it to make a lot of image corrections there before I ever get to PS.
For simple shots that are only cropped & sharpened in PS, I usually delete the tiff after 'cause RawShooter saves the changes made in conversion & I don't need to keep the 3X+ size of the tiff.
For instance, use the Snapshot feature & you can save several versions if you need a light & dark exposure for contrast control.
The saved conversion info only takes up about 1KB of disk space.

I'll save complex tiffs with a lot of layers & selections too, but not often.
Generally I'll keep the web jpeg in the root folder to use as an index to what's in the raw files.