TIFF file import

I'm running a trial version of Lightroom. A fresh import of image files from my hard drive rejects 2,022 TIFF files and fails to import them. I have no problem importing the same files into Aperture. Can someone suggest how I can get these TIFF files into Lightroom? Thanks.

>I can change their color profile to RGB pretty easily (and tediously) with Apple's ColorSync Utility if it proves necessary to get them into Lightroom.
Since you are on Mac OS X, You should be able to create an automator applet that does this all automatically for you. You can also set up a droplet with Photoshop that will do it. Might save a lot of time. It's unfortunate that Lightroom doesn't support single channel tiffs directly though. They're fairly common in legacy archives such as yours.

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I took a quick look and searched through the forum and found nothing. I can't be the only one doing this!
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That's a ridiculous bug and the fact that you cannot see the entire filename (.nef, .tif, .psd) on the light table (except in tooltips) is pretty incredible too. It's like they were assuming there was no other previous workflow.
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bogiesan
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Since upgrading from iLife '09 to iLife '11, I can't import portrait photos in TIFF format into iPhoto! JPEG versions work fine but as most of my photos are TIFF I'm left with a lot of photos that I can't see/use. Landscape photos are fine.
I'm using a Nikon D300 camera. I have 2 iMacs and a Mac Book - all running Mac OS X vers. 10.6.8 - and they all have the same problem.

I had a similar problem, which I suspect is going to be off little help if trying to get photos into the mac from a camera.
I had all my pics on a USB drive external to my old windows machine. When I moved to a mac I started to import into iPhoto 11. The only images I could not load were portrait tiff files, all of which have an Orientation: 8 (Rotated 90° CW) setting as oposed to Orientation: 1 (Normal).
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In iPhoto 11 imported tiff files remain tiff after editing. I need to convert to large file jpegs. How? using the "export" function they become too small

I thought imported tiff files would be converted by iPhoto to JPEGS in previous versions of iPhoto. this might have been a disadvantage but my current project requires JPEGs as the final product.
thanks for any guidance
Jim

Drag the photo from the iPhoto window to the desktop or export as kind = JPEG
As to too small - what is too small? The pixel dimensions of the exported JPEG will be identical to the original TIFF - the file size is smaller because JPEGs are compressed - which of course reduces file size - which of course is the reason that JPEG exists
LN

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Hello,
I've been doing a lot of experimenting with this problem. You can read about what I have found to work, and what has not worked in the following discussion threads.
I did find one fix (sort of) that I mentioned here:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=365867&tstart=0
If you want to read about the experimenting and trials I have performed, you can read here:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=356679&tstart=0
and here:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=340530&tstart=0
Do your problems sound like the ones I described in the first link above?
If not, which problems are you having?
What OS version are you trying to work with? Panther? Tiger? which specific revision of the OS?
Just trying to see how consistent the problems are.
Anyway, I hope the thoughts expressed in my other postings (in the links above) are helpful.

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the kind of conversion you are talking about is likely a pipe dream.
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I just imported a project of 1Ds MIII TIFF files first converted in Capture One then imported into Aperture. In the preview and when exported they are noticeably lighter and desaturated than the originals when both are compared side by side, to the point they can't be sent off for publication purposes, and I don't want to try to compensate for something like that. Proofing is off as far as I can tell.
My copy of Aperture and OSX are up to date...
Any ideas? Thanks!

Cannot import Tiff files

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Thanks Axel

I am guessing then, done as an Export to TIFF with the Export Dialogue, not Export to PSCS, then. Are they named the same as the Raw file except fot the Extension? If so, change the name by adding something like -edit.TIF and they will be imported. LR maybe seeing them as sidecars to the RAW and like JPEGs generated as a pair with a RAW by a camera, LR ignores it.
There are a number of very long threads on this issue. Most are titled impart 'RAW - JPEG'.
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Perfect. I changed the mode to RGB and it worked. I had already confirmed the layers were all rasterized. Thank you for your help.

Resizing a TIFF File: Overwriting TIFFFields does not have any effect

Hi,
I have some TIFF files that I am receiving through a FAX server. Some of the TIFF files have an image length of *1077 pixels and a DPI of 200x98*. These images open fine in generic viewers like Microsoft Image Viewer and IrfanView and the image size in the information dialog shows up fine (1752x2158). But when I open the images in a LeadTools viewer (that works off TIFF Header tags), the image appears stretched out.
I am trying to re-sample the image to make it a true Letter size image (1700x2200) with resolution of 200x200. I have been able to set the TAG_X_RESOLUTION and TAG_Y_RESOLUTION which I can see changed in the Tag Viewer. But changing the following tags does not have any effect on the resulting image:
TAG_IMAGE_WIDTH
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TAG_ROWS_PER_STRIP
the following is the code I am using, I have tried all possible ways (removing TIFFFeilds and then adding them), but it has no effect. The last options is to use a Print Driver from within Java and Print the image (that re-samples it into a 8.5x11 inch image with 200 DPI). At this point, I am just curious about writing TIFFFields with images. Any ideas are appreciated:
Thanks,
Manuj
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import java.io.BufferedOutputStream;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.util.Iterator;
import javax.imageio.IIOImage;
import javax.imageio.ImageIO;
import javax.imageio.ImageReader;
import javax.imageio.ImageWriter;
import javax.imageio.metadata.IIOMetadata;
import javax.imageio.stream.ImageInputStream;
import javax.imageio.stream.ImageOutputStream;
import org.w3c.dom.NamedNodeMap;
import org.w3c.dom.Node;
import com.sun.media.imageio.plugins.tiff.BaselineTIFFTagSet;
import com.sun.media.imageio.plugins.tiff.TIFFDirectory;
import com.sun.media.imageio.plugins.tiff.TIFFField;
import com.sun.media.imageio.plugins.tiff.TIFFImageWriteParam;
import com.sun.media.imageio.plugins.tiff.TIFFTag;
import com.sun.media.imageioimpl.plugins.tiff.TIFFT6Compressor;
               //set the input stream for to the reader
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               ImageWriter tiffWriter = (ImageWriter) ImageIO.getImageWritersByMIMEType("image/tiff").next();
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               TIFFImageWriteParam writeParam = (TIFFImageWriteParam)tiffWriter.getDefaultWriteParam();
               TIFFT6Compressor compressor = new TIFFT6Compressor();
               writeParam.setCompressionMode(TIFFImageWriteParam.MODE_EXPLICIT);
               writeParam.setCompressionType(compressor.getCompressionType());
               writeParam.setTIFFCompressor(compressor);
               writeParam.setCompressionQuality(Float.parseFloat("1"));
// get the metaData
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               IIOImage testImage = null;
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                    imageMetadata = tiffFileReader.getImageMetadata(i);
                    TIFFDirectory dir = TIFFDirectory.createFromMetadata(imageMetadata);
          // Get {X,Y}Resolution tags.
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          TIFFTag tagXRes = base.getTag(BaselineTIFFTagSet.TAG_X_RESOLUTION);
          TIFFTag tagYRes = base.getTag(BaselineTIFFTagSet.TAG_Y_RESOLUTION);
          TIFFTag tagImageWidth = base.getTag(BaselineTIFFTagSet.TAG_IMAGE_WIDTH);
TIFFTag tagImageLength = base.getTag(BaselineTIFFTagSet.TAG_IMAGE_LENGTH);
          TIFFTag tagRowsPerStrip = base.getTag(BaselineTIFFTagSet.TAG_ROWS_PER_STRIP);
          TIFFField fieldRowsPerStrip = new TIFFField(tagRowsPerStrip, TIFFTag.TIFF_SHORT, 1, (Object)new char[]{2200});
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          TIFFField fieldXRes = new TIFFField(tagXRes, TIFFTag.TIFF_RATIONAL,1, new long[][] {{200, 1}});
          TIFFField fieldYRes = new TIFFField(tagYRes, TIFFTag.TIFF_RATIONAL,1, new long[][] {{200, 1}});
          // Create Width/Height fields.
          TIFFField fieldImageWidth = new TIFFField(tagImageWidth,TIFFTag.TIFF_SHORT,1, (Object)new char[]{1728});
          TIFFField fieldImageLength = new TIFFField(tagImageLength, TIFFTag.TIFF_SHORT,1, (Object)new char[]{2200});
          //TIFFTag imageLengthTag = fieldImageLength.getTag();
          // Append {X,Y}Resolution fields to directory.
          dir.addTIFFField(fieldXRes);
          dir.addTIFFField(fieldYRes);
          //add Image Length and height parameters
          dir.addTIFFField(fieldImageWidth);
          dir.addTIFFField(fieldImageLength);
          // dir.removeTIFFField(278);
          dir.addTIFFField(fieldRowsPerStrip);
testImage = new IIOImage(tiffFileReader.read(i), null, dir.getAsMetadata());
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The resulting image with this carries the updated DPI values (200x200) but still carries the old values of 1752x1077, the length being exactly half of what Irfan view is showing.
Edited by: Manuj on Nov 2, 2010 10:48 AM

Your problem for some reason sounds familiar.
EDIT
Ok, now I remember. Your post is like this one in the old forums,
http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?forumID=540&threadID=5425983
Basically, for viewing purposes Irfanview scales the image's height by 2 and changes the dpi to *200x196*. It does this to achieve a 'square' pixel. The image that appears on screen now looks roughly how a printer would print it. However, the image data is still the same squished 1752x1077 image.

(CS4) Why is Premiere CS4 modifying TIFF files in a sequence?

Hello,
decided to post here, because I didn't find any old postings of this subject anywhere.
I'm composing 2-d drawn animation on AE and editing in Premiere, then importing to
Avid media composer for exporting to Sony Digital Beta tape via SDI. When working in
CS3 and earlier, everything was nice, AE made about 1730 kB TIFF files and Premiere
kept them the same size, you just needed to select export -> movie... Tiff sequence,
deselect recompress, select best quality and optimize stills. File sizes were the same,
and I could rest assured that the original AE image quality was still there.
Now in CS4, something fundamental has changed. AE CS4 still makes perfect TIFF
animation frames (at 1024x576 same as CS3, about 1730kB and at 1050x576 about
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So far, so good.
In Premiere 2.0 and 3.0, you could select a preselection 720*576 pal widescreen
composition and when exporting the edited animation would get the same pixel-level
IQ as from a custom Desktop: 1024*576 square pixel composition, when using the
Export movie described above. This to me looks like Premiere uses the original
TIFF material.
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preset (with AE CS4 1050*576 animation sequences) and export 1050*576 pal
widescreen square pixel image sequences, Adobe Media Encoder chops off 330
square pixels and stretches the image horizontally for blurred, sad results.
EXPORT MOVIE never did this!
Having found that out, I use only custom-> desktop: 1024 or 1050 projects now,
but here again something weird happens: Adobe Media encoder adds about 600kB
to every TIFF frame, and I'm almost unable to notice the difference, but I would say
that the images certainly don't look any better than the ones that were imported to
Premiere, more on the opposite. So, in every option but when exporting one TIFF at
a time Media Encoder alters the superb AE TIFFs.
Why on earth does Adobe want to add a huge amount of useless bits, in animation
the disk space required increases very significantly. What was wrong with the
EXPORT MOVIE option?
I'm asking should I just edit in Premiere 3 if I want unchanged, superb AE quality
TIFF sequences? Premiere gives it when I export only 1 frame, but as soon as I tick
"Export as sequence" it starts Adobe Media encoder which affects all frames, even
those with no Premiere effects on them. Premiere 3 preserved original IQ even in
PAL editing mode (export movie uncompressed) but Encoder in CS4 either
loses 30% of the pixels or adds about 600kB more air!?!?!
1050*576 is not a must for me because I want web movies to be 16:9 sqpix and
the Avid where I work in prefers 1024*576 over 1050*576 in Digital Betacam tape
exporting for uncompromised broadcasting results.
This issue is affecting many animatiors here in Finland, in CS3 and earlier there
were no problems because Premiere respected AE quality work, but now this Media
Encoder has messed things up, not selecting Custom-desktop-1024/1050 will ruin any
animation movie image sequence and selecting it makes files A LOT bigger without any
improvement in IQ.
I hope someone from Adobe could explain what on earth is going on in Premiere
development? Many animation professionals in Finland are awaiting your kind reply.
Anyone with a clue what's going on in the altering can give a hand!
Olli Laamanen, Finland

I did additional testing by comparing exported frames from Premiere
to the AE frames. Only when I delete all render files before export, do I get
the same image pixel-wise. But then there's the extra ~600kB of data.
Does anyone know what that is, a colleague suggested it might be the color
profile or some metadata added by adobe media encoder. I'd really like
to know what it is! Someone who knows something about this Adobe
Media Encoder might have the answer.
So if you are using AE and Premiere to make animation and want to
keep your master footage unchanged, the equivalent for CS3 export ->
movie -> TIFF uncompressed is to
-work only in desktop mode
-delete all render files before exporting media through the encoder
otherwise CS4 will change your images.
Like this it doesn't change the images but adds over 30% additional
data (somekind of tags/metadata)?
Anyone with a guess what it is, please help!

How to open jpg, tiff files in camera raw from elements 10 organizer

How to open JPG, TIFF files in camera raw from Elements 10 organizer.

Thanks for that Damead, I agree with you that Organiser is real pain (there is a total lack of intuitiveness if that is the correct word).
For my own work I use 'Lightroom' for around 90% of the time, only going into PSE10 for the 10% difficult bits the Lightroom can't handle.
I only needed to sort out the JPEG file opening method within PSE10 for some freinds in a small Photo Group that I run in Woodhall Spa, UK. 50% of the 12 members are beginners & a number of them do not have Raw capability on their Camera's, but now they can get their JPEG's into Camera Raw within PSE10 they have the same simple tabular form of adjustment sliders (not as many as in Lightroom of cause) but it gets over the labourious problem of going thru the PSE10's individual tool selection process each and every time since we are trying to get everyone in the Group working with individual Tools rather than the 'Auto' functions. We do this so that they learn what they are doing rather than staying 'dumb&happy' within Auto all the time & they also learn how to get more detailed control for each photo.
Ref. your comments on file handling/usage, I agree with your comments. Its far and away much more preferable to set up a file structure in 'Finder" (or in 'Explorer' if still using Windows) that you understand so you always know how to find the files. Also, I also never ever use the Camera Auto Load programme but physically 'drag & drop' photo files direct from the 'card' into the file system so I always know thier place (ie: they go into the location I want, not that which the Auto Loader wants).
As regards your comment about 'Lightroom', I don't have any problems at all since I just imported the whole of my photo file structure into the Lightroom Library Catalouge and then it automatically shows up on the LHS of the screen, still in that format, so you can search it direct within Lightroom and display all of the photo's in variuos arrangements and sizes; everything is as easy to find as it is in 'Finder' plus of cause you have all the 'Tagging' possibilities to use as well. As you add more new files into the 'Finder' structure, all you need to do in Lightroom is reimport, starting 1 level up from the new files and Lightroom will find the new files that need loading (ignoring the older ones already in the Library at that or lower levels) then 1 click and its done.
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Regards

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