Reliability of psd to tiff conversation

[DanielDD]

Hallo,

how reliable is a converation like

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convert m.psd -layers merge -compress zip m.tif

Usually, m.psd is a complex document using several layers and smart filters.
Is the result m.tif the same as whether I export m.psd in Photoshop
to a single layer tif?

Daniel

[DanielDD]

I made some experiments and the answer is NO!

[fmw42]

Generally the first psd layer is the flattened layer. So try

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convert image.psd[0] image.tif

[snibgo]

... and smart filters.

I don't know what these are, but I expect IM ignores them.

[DanielDD]

fmw42's idea did not work.

As snibgo wrote, IM seems to ignore these filters.

Daniel

[fmw42]

ImageMagick cannot handle smart filters or adjustment layers or group layers at this time. It is very limited in its handling of PSD files. There are some defines that can be used. See http://www.imagemagick.org/script/comma ... php#define. But I do not think they will help you in this case where you want to save to Tif.