Import Tiff with layers

BadWolf

Member Joined: Sep 10, 2015 09:45 Messages: 126 Offline

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Oct 10, 2022 08:32

I know PHD supports TIFF files with layers, but is it for files only created and exported with PhotoDirector? If I export a file with layers as TIFF format from photoshop, for example, and open it in PHD, the layers are gone. Is this normal behavior?

ynotfish

Senior Contributor Location: N.S.W. Australia Joined: May 08, 2009 02:06 Messages: 9977 Offline

Oct 10, 2022 16:39

Hi BadWolf -

That's right, & it's not just PhD.

Here's a quote from the PS Help File:

TIFF format supports CMYK, RGB, Lab, Indexed Color, and Grayscale images with alpha channels and Bitmap mode images without alpha channels. Photoshop can save layers in a TIFF file; however, if you open the file in another application, only the flattened image is visible. Photoshop can also save notes, transparency, and multiresolution pyramid data in TIFF format.

Another PS export option is .PSD, but PhD doesn't recognise it.

Just complete all your layer editing in PS & export as a flattened file.

Cheers - Tony
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BadWolf

Member Joined: Sep 10, 2015 09:45 Messages: 126 Offline

Oct 10, 2022 20:39

Oh Adobe with your proprietary shenanigans!

thanks for the info mate!

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