TIFF to JPEG

I used to be able to open a TIFF in Elements 3 & 8 both and then save it as a JPEG. I am no longer given this option. Why not? What is the best way to accomplish this conversion?

Unless you are using 16 bit tiffs you should be able to do this. (It was never an option for those, since jpeg is an 8 bit file format.) Try going to Image>Mode>8 bits/channel and see if that brings it back.

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Cannot copy RAW images to Tiff or Jpeg in ACR

Requesting immediate help if anyone available currently
I've been using Photoshop CS6 for several years, never a problem at all. As soon as I bought Creative Cloud, I see many issues that cannot be resolved or are recurring.
Again today as I go to copy files (images) from Adobe Camera Raw, to say a Tiff or a Jpeg, it appears to begin to copy as normal, then suddenly a box appears with all my copying
file name/numbers, and it begins to eliminate one by one "Cannot Create File", failing the entire process to copy. I have never seen this until I began using Creative Cloud about a
month ago.
Can anyone help this Saturday evening as i am trying to complete a large project of images for others who expect them soon.?
Thank you and I look forward to any advice soon,
Mark Seibold, Artist-Astronomer, Portland Oregon

Hi Rick
Thanks for clarifying that. Yes, that term was my mistake, as I meant to write 'Save As"
Another forum respondent just replied also, and he states as so many others do, that they do not use
the Adobe Camera Raw app formerly with CS6, as they instead use Lightroom, so he apologized that he
was not familiar with ACR but that I might have an old CS6 plug-in running that may not be completely
compatible with the new Creative Cloud. I am not sure if this is the problem.
What I would find as not really likely, is that the Creative Cloud engineers would go through all the trouble
to redesign from the old CS6, then even assist us over the phone to help install it, but in oversight,
leave us without a proper update to properly run Adobe Camera Raw. I also have never really understood the advantage of Lightroom. I'm sure that many must enjoy its efficiency, as I hear wedding photographers like it for huge batch processing of adjusting many images in synchronicity all at once. I would say that I do the same with ACR accessing it through Bridge, and I like ACR's quick and simple access for simple image adjustments and then say a small batch all synchronized, then finally to "Save As" for all selected to a final output as Tiff or Jpeg.
As an astronomer that has just started learning to use Registax for night sky images, we also like the ACR adjustments and then to "Save As" eg. all Jpeg or all Tiff, to then photo-stitch large landscape and night sky panoramas with Microsoft ICE photo-stitching.
Sorry for the long description here, but I hope to relate the total idea of what I am doing for the past years. I'll even attach an example >
Thanks for your possible solution to my problem in "Saving As" in ACR,
Mark

In photoshop cc my saved files don't appear as thumbnails with the image, only with the generic tiff or jpeg icon

how do i get actual thumbnail images in photoshop cc instead of generic tiff or jpeg icons??

And what exactly? If you mean system thumbnails, then this has nothing to do with PS. You messed up your file associations then by installing a tool that usurped those associations and they no longer default to the Windows preview function.
Mylenium

Lightroom won't open TIFF or JPEG files to CS5

Recently upgraded to a new iMac. This morning when I tried to open a TIFF file from Lightroom 3.4.1 into Photoshop CS5 I got a message saying: Lightroom was unable to prepare the selected file at /Volumes/Drobo1/Photos/2011/02-14-2011 Yellowstone/Yellowstone-0641-Edit.tif for editing.
It will not be opened.
The only way Lightroom will open a TIFF or JPEG image to CS5 is if I tell it to open a copy of the image with Lightroom Adjustments. If I say I want to edit the original or a copy, it won't do it.
If I go into CS5 and open the TIFF there, it works fine, so the problem doesn't seem to be with CS5.
Lightroom WILL open RAW files into CS5 without any error message.
I'm using Snow Leopard 10.6.8, which was upgraded yesterday and am wondering if that's the problem since I could open TIFFs on the new computer before.
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Do you have full permissions to the DROBO folder the files are in? I'm a Windows person so I can't tell you how to check this, but upgrading a OS and then things not working might be related to permissions where the files were created with a profile on the previous OS.

Raw File conversion to Tiff or Jpeg - best workflow for multiple files in Photo Shop Elements 11

Hello, I am pretty new to shooting in raw and Photoshop Elements (11). I have one big problem. Once I open Elements up and load the Raw files from the SD card it shows them all on the left side in Camera Raw. I make my contrast and color adjustments if needed, but then my problem starts: I do not really want to make any further adjustments in Elements itself, but in order to save my Raw files either as Tiff or Jpeg it seems like I need to - through clicking on the "open image". Now it only opens up that one particular photo. I did not manage to go simply back to Camera Raw to grab the next one as the screen just disappears. However, this one by one process is of course not the preferred way. I know that there is batch processing, but am also not sure if my adjustments that I did in Camera Raw will carry over as I am actually never saving anything and would like to avoid saving it before all manually as .dng files as it would just be another extra step. I hope I could make clear where I have problems and what I would like to achieve and hope you can help me. Many thanks in advance.
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Simply select and edit each picture thumbnail from the left panel without clicking 'Done' or 'Open'.
When you have edited each individual picture, select all your thumbnails - click on the first one - shift click on the last one. They should be all highlighted.
Then simply click 'Done'.
Your edits are saved in sidecar xmp files.
If the thumbnails are not yet automatically updated, select the files, right click and choose 'Update thumbnail'.
No need to use the editor with 'Open as' if you don't want any further edit or jpeg/tiff/psd/png version.
Edit:
I am not sure I have understood your question.
The above process lets you convert and edit a batch of raw files without opening the editor.
If you want to get jpeg or tiff files from the already edited raw files, either use the 'process multiple files' of the editor or the 'export' feature from the Organizer.
The common raw workflow in Elements consists in converting small batches as explained above to take advantage of applying common edits or individual differences. In some cases you want to open the editor, in others not.
That's at the input time.
When you want to output pictures, the selection of picture is different for each purpose. You'll include pictures edited in different batches, some still in raw format, others already converted in version sets to jpeg/tiff... For each output purpose, those selected pictures can be sent to the destination folder in the required format withoug opening the editor at that stage either using 'process multiple files' or 'export'.

When I change my TIFFs to jpegs, the color and tone are changing as well [was: Need help please!]

When I change my TIFFs to jpegs, the color and tone are changing as well, any ideas as to what the problem could be?

You are screwing up the colors by not using color management or at least not keeping an eye what color space/ profiel your source files use anbd what happens when Safe for Web converts them. As a start, perhaps refer to this, then work your way through the Internet wide and far to learn about color management:
Common Photoshop Issues
Mylenium

Aperture to export photos either TIFF or JPEG files, highlight and shadow transition has obvious faults, this problem solved!?

Aperture to export photos either TIFF or JPEG files, highlight and shadow transition has obvious faults, this problem solved!?

What problem?
You will have to be _a lot_ more specific if you'd like responsible feedback.
I export thousands of TIFF and JPG files a week with no obvious faults.
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Placed TIFFs or JPEGs: Is there a High Quality Display setting?

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Losing metadata after TIFF to JPEG conversion in Image Processor

When I use Image Processor to convert TIFF to JPEG for my images I am losing metadata information placed in the Properties section of my image file (PC). Is there a work-around for this so that the information isn't lost? Any idea why this is happening?

Possibly the tiff is 16 bit.
In Full Edit click Image à Mode à 8 Bit/channel
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Converting TIFF to JPEG with sips, then import into iPhoto problems

I am cataloguing a box of slides and negatives for my family. The scanner generates huge TIFF files (on purpose), and I have an Applescript that then uses sips to copy them into low quality JPEG files using this command:
do shell script ("sips -s format jpeg -s formatOptions low -s description " & "'" & "Original path: " & (POSIX path of an_image) & "'" & space & (POSIX path of an_image) & " --out " & new_file)
where an_image is the source file, and new_file is the path and name of the converted image.
This way, I can save the original file path as the image's description while shrinking the file size to speed up later importing into iPhoto. As part of the iPhoto import, that description from the metadata is placed in the on screen comment section for each image.
This works fine to do the initial shrinking, but less than half of the resulting jpeg files can subsequently be imported into iPhoto. I get this error:
The following file could not be imported. (The file is in an unrecognizable format.)
And yet, Preview and Safari both open the files with no problems.
Is there anything else I need to set when doing the conversion with sips to make it easier for iPhoto to recognize the converted files?
I have over 1000 images, and anticipate a final total of about 2500 when I am done. These are images of myself and my siblings from the 1960s and 1970s, and my idea is to scan them all at high resolution, and use the converted, smaller files for iPhoto for keywording and Faces to get them organized, while retaining the paths to the original images. Any commentary is appreciated.

I have uploaded one of the bad JPG files here:
www.mrcodeboy.com/smith/Try.jpg
I tried examining the metadata with exiftool, Image Events, and mdls, but there are a number of differences between the TIFF metadata and the JPEG metadata structures. I found no obvious differences, but this is a good idea, and I will continue to examine those closely for clues.
*EDIT*
I downloaded the bad JPEG above onto a different machine; it still does not import into iPhoto. However, by invoking sips on that file to convert it back to a TIFF file thusly:
sips -s format tiff Try.jpg --out TryTF.tif
it imported just fine. There has to be some sort of parameter that is NOT being addressed in the conversion from TIFF to JPEG that is somehow messing this up, yet is preserved when the file is re-written as a TIFF.
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File conversion - RAW or DNG to TIFF or JPEG

Toshiba Satellite A70 running Win XP
When I download a single RAW image file from my new Panasonic DMC-FZ30 to Elements 4, both a RAW and JPEG file appear. Why is this? Have the RAW file characteristics been altered automatically?
After adjusting/editing the RAW file in Elements 4's RAW file editor (which appears whether I call for the quick or standard editor) I save it as a DNG file which is then added to the browser. I am unable to convert this file or the original RAW file to a TIFF or JPEG file for further editing in the standard editor as there is no "Save as" function in the drop down file menu.
Am I missing something simple? or ...
Help please!!!
Ian

Ian, the answer to the second portion of your query: after you've opened
the image in the Raw Converter and made your adjustments, select the choice
"Open" rather than "Save" at the bottom right. This takes you directly into
the main Editor screen, where you can then save as JPEG, TIFF, and a variety
of other formats. That Save in the RAW converter is a new feature in PE 4,
and I ran into the same dilemma.
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whether it's a full-size image? It could be a thumbnail. On the other
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Working with tiff and jpeg?

1. ACR saves changes made to a raw image into the sidecar file, though what is it doing with the tiff or jpeg file that is changed? Where is this saved?
2.what features do you not have if you open tiff or jpeg in ACR? It seems to do everything the same.
Thanks.

The settings are saved as xmp metadata inside the jpeg/tiff. Note that while the settings are saved (and show up in Bridge), the settings are not actually applied until you actually process the images. So other 3rd party viewers won't see the changes. The embedded metadata is done safely and will not impact the file. The xmp metadata is also stored inside of DNG files as well. Only proprietary raw files force the use of sidecar files because ACR/Adobe treats them as read only files (it's not "safe" to write metadata in proprietary raw files since the formats are not documented).
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Yeah you shouldn't use ~ in general. That is a shortcut for "Your home directory."
This is not strictly true. ~ is a "meta-character" in Unix shells -- it is an instruction to the shell to substitute the path to a home directory. It only has meaning in a Unix shell command, and only if ~ is the first character in a file path name. Outside of a Unix shell ~ has no special significance (although other programs might adopt a similar convention).
I don't see any reason why Aperture would be doing tilde expansion, and if it is, it is doing it wrong. "March~May Asia Trip" is a perfectly legitimate name in both Mac OS and in Unix. There is nothing taboo about using ~ in a file name. This behavior (which I can confirm) is almost certainly an Aperture bug.

Tiff or JPEG better quality in iMovie?

Which format gives better quality in iMovie...TIFFs or JPEGs or does it not make a difference?

Thanks for learning, Sue!
QuickTime Pro image format imports are a different Apple than images used in DV editor such as iMovie.
Did you know, assuming you have a very fast Mac or PC, that you can import nearly every major image file format via QuickTime? How about 60 fps screen grabs in .pdf or .png or video formats?
You could, in elementary theory, assemble an HD image sequence?
QuickTime Pro has so much power and it is the basis for such "i"Apps as iMovie, iPhoto, iTunes, and the higher end "Pro" apps like Final Cut and Logic Pro.
Apps like Apple "Preview" (an image viewing application) are also built on the core foundation of QuickTime.
PC users still get "Picture Viewer" when they install QuickTime? It is Mac's Preview app now.
QuickTime.
It is so deep into the Mac OS it would be impossible to separate it from the OS.
QuickTime helped develop our Mac "eye candy" experience.
It also helped developers understand the rules. And game developers create such rich graphics.
Even HD TV owes a bit of gratitude to the software engineers behind it.

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