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Reliability of psd to tiff conversation

Posted: 2017-06-08T07:34:27-07:00
by 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

Re: Reliability of psd to tiff conversation

Posted: 2017-06-08T07:44:47-07:00
by DanielDD
I made some experiments and the answer is NO!

Re: Reliability of psd to tiff conversation

Posted: 2017-06-08T10:24:57-07:00
by fmw42
Generally the first psd layer is the flattened layer. So try

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convert image.psd[0] image.tif

Re: Reliability of psd to tiff conversation

Posted: 2017-06-08T10:36:19-07:00
by snibgo
DanielDD wrote:... and smart filters.
I don't know what these are, but I expect IM ignores them.

Re: Reliability of psd to tiff conversation

Posted: 2017-06-08T11:58:58-07:00
by DanielDD
fmw42's idea did not work.

As snibgo wrote, IM seems to ignore these filters.

Daniel

Re: Reliability of psd to tiff conversation

Posted: 2017-06-08T13:33:46-07:00
by 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.