Getting one layer of a layered tiff file

[tibberous]

I have a tiff file with 3 layers. I want to get just the second one. Is this possible?

Are there any other image formats that support layers that I might have better luck with?

[anthony]

To your read add a '[1]'

See Reading images, Read Modifiers.
http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/files/#read_mods

or use delete to delete image 0 and all images afetr that one.