TIFFs turn into Canon Raw images

Why does iPhoto call my .tif files Canon Raw images? They are scanned images I edited in Photoshop CS3. I did set dates in iPhoto, having checked "Modify original files", but that's the only thing I did.
Edit: now that I checked, I also discovered that the files shrunk to about 10% of the original file size. Why? I don't want my photos converted to lossy formats without being asked.

Others are having problems with iPhoto changing tiffs to jpgs after date change and editing. See the thread "Adjust Date and Time..." will convert your TIFFs to JPGs!!!. I was not able to duplicate that issue. I also did essentially the same as you did and did not experience your problem.
Were the extensions on those files changed to .cr2 or another Canon raw extension?
TIP: For insurance against the iPhoto database corruption that many users have experienced I recommend making a backup copy of the Library6.iPhoto database file and keep it current. If problems crop up where iPhoto suddenly can't see any photos or thinks there are no photos in the library, replacing the working Library6.iPhoto file with the backup will often get the library back. By keeping it current I mean backup after each import and/or any serious editing or work on books, slideshows, calendars, cards, etc. That insures that if a problem pops up and you do need to replace the database file, you'll retain all those efforts. It doesn't take long to make the backup and it's good insurance.
I've created an Automator workflow application (requires Tiger), iPhoto dB File Backup, that will copy the selected Library6.iPhoto file from your iPhoto Library folder to the Pictures folder, replacing any previous version of it. It's compatible with iPhoto 08 libraries and Leopard. iPhoto does not have to be closed to run the application, just idle. You can download it at Toad's Cellar. Be sure to read the Read Me pdf file.

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Hi,
tried already in the german forums without answer, so will try it her
System:
macbook pro 2012, Core i7
16GB Ram
after upgradinf to 10.10. full and the upgrades for Photoshop i have the following problem,
this occured 4 times now.
When double clicking a Canon Raw Image (.cr2 file) Camera Raw 8.6 opens.
Now i can adjust the pic - and/or can open it into Photoshop
worked fine so far....but not always since the update
If i do so, sometime the pic will be opened like this
is here a photoshop pro aware of this error?
So far i did NOT reinstall Photoshop.
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I have made a few more observations.
I can actually open Camera Raw if I click the "Open in Camera Raw..." icon i Bridge.
In Camera Raw I can save files as .psd for example, and also open them in Photoshop. I still get the error when I try to open Camera Raw settings.

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Howard,
You may have been given misleading information -- PSE 5 should indeed read Canon 50D raw files. According to this Adobe tech note, PSE 5 supports Adobe Camera Raw 4.6:
http://www.adobe.com/go/kb407110
and according to the ACR 4.6 download page, it supports the Canon 50D:
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=4036
So if you really didn't want to spend the money for upgrading, you could return PSE 7.
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I noticed annoying color borders in RAW images taken from my Canon PowerShot S120. They look like the color planes are misaligned. Around high contrast areas (between light and dark grey) I can notice magenta borders in one direction and cyan borders in the opposite direction, both approximately 5 pixels wide.
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Hi Keith
Thanks for the infos.
Just to clarify:
I didn't ask for RAW, I just use raw formats because there's curretly no better alternative. I would like to see what came into the lens - like an ideal hole camera . Ordinary JPEG is way too limited (8bit resolution per color channel plus really ugly compression artefacts).
For archiving I would much prefer the JPEG2000 format with lossless encoding and as many bits per pixel as the camera's analog to digital converters provide, linearly encoded (above the noise background but including one bit of noise, to be precise). But, alas, when I did my last experiments (Snow Leopard) the image framework in Mac OS X did still not support more than 8bit resolution per color channel in JPEG2000.
One good thing about raw formats is that the corrections could actually be better than what is always done by the camera's firmware for JPEG or standard TIFF at the time of the shot. Another good thing is that various sensor and color patterns can be handled directly.
If Canon can do it in DPP, then I strongly hope they will also provide a better converter for Mac OS X. On some pictures this aberrations are really obvious and irritating.

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MTSTUNER
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Unfortunately I still have the problem. When importing pictures via Canon Utility in iPhoto, the editing window was fine. But shutting down iphoto and re-opening the problem appears. So the problem is not related to the importing method.
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file:///Users/marthafitzsimon/Desktop/Picture%201.png
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1. When first imported into iPhoto, the image is untouched and shows as "Canon Raw" with its original size (approx 7MB) in the information window.
2. If you have an external editor (like Photoshop Elements) setup, double clicking the photo causes iPhoto to create a new JPEG image with the same dimensions as the original and about 2.2MB in size. This JPEG image is what is opened in the external editor.
2a. The same thing happens if you edit inside iPhoto.
3. After editing a RAW image (i.e. creating a JPEG as above), the iPhoto library still shows the image name with .CRW, but the information window now says the format is "JPEG Image (from Canon Raw)" and the size is about 2MB. The edited JPEG image is what is shown in the iPhoto thumbnail.
4. If you now Share->Export the image, when "Original" is selected in the Format popup menu, the unedited RAW image is exported.
5. If you want to export the edited image, you need to select JPEG from the Format popup menu when you select Share->Export. Then your edited JPEG image will be exported.
6. If you drag the original unedited RAW image from the iPhoto library window to the Photoshop Elements icon in the dock, the Canon RAW image is opened in Photoshop Elements. In this case, iPhoto doesn't create the JPEG image first.
Did I miss anything?

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3. Edit RAWs
4. Reduce to 8 bit
5. Save as JPEG in the folder where iPhoto stores the JPEGs derived from the RAWs, i.e. the parent folder of the 'Original' folder where the RAWs you just edited are stored, i.e. overwrite the JPEGs already present there.
6. Close the file in PS.
Now, combine 4, 5, and 6 into a PS-Aktion.
iPhoto recognises the JPEGS, but sometimes one has to click on them show the edited version. Somehow, iPhoto is still at first creating a preview from the RAW file and not recognising that there is an edited JPEG version (understandingly, since iPhoto can't remember it created edited JPEGs).

Why are RAW image thumbnails not being rendered?

OK. I am not sure that I used the right terminology, but I have noticed that Bridge is no longer rendering (? proper term) the Canon Raw image thumbnails properly in Bridge CS6.
I shoot RAW and Small JPEGs. I copy the folder of images onto my external hard from my camera and open Bridge. I see thumbnails of both the RAW and JPEGs with a black border around each image. As Bridge reads each image, the black border disappears from each JPEG thumbnail, but not from the RAW thumbnail like it used to do.
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When the loop is on the larger preview image, the image in the loop enlarges automatically to 200% and I have to take the time to scale it back to read the image selection at 100%.
When I do a batch edit of many RAW images in Bridge, I can click done and the small slider in a circle icon appears above the RAW thumbnail, but the thumbnail is not rendered to reflect the correctiuons made to the image.
This was never an issue before. Bridge was great in reading RAW images at all stages and now it's not.
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