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March 22, 2012

P: TIFF compression settings have no effect when Lightroom sends image to Photoshop for editing

  • March 22, 2012
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Hello, I believe this is a bug..When using edit in Photoshop from Lightroom with TIFF format set, none of the compression settings work. Because when the file is saved in Photoshop (ctrl+s) and comes back to Lightroom it's always an uncompressed TIFF. Every other setting works.Unfortunately I can't tell whether the fault is on Lightroom or Photoshop side..Tested on Win 7 - 64bit with LR 3.6 - 64bit and PS CS5.1 - 64bit, also on Win XP - 32bit LR 3.5, PS CS5. (In both cases camera raw version match) Lightroom 4 behaves the same.I would appreciate your replies, Thank you

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Inspiring
December 1, 2020

Está acontecendo a mesma coisa com o meu ps e Lr

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Inspiring
December 1, 2020

Está acontecendo a mesma coisa com o meu ps e Lr

Inspiring
December 1, 2020

Está acontecendo o mesmo problema com o meu

Todd Shaner
Legend
October 20, 2020

Rick, this issue appears to be fixed on my Windows 10 system using LrC 10.0.

Rick Spaulding -
Legend
October 20, 2020

Greetings,

 

Updates for the Adobe Photography Products were released on 10.20.2020 that include fixes for these issues. Please install the most recent update and confirm that your issue is now fixed. Please let us know if you encounter any issues.

 

Thank you for your patience.

Todd Shaner
Legend
June 18, 2020
Rikk, using LR 9.3 the issue appears to be fixed on my Windows 10 system.

However, I'm still seeing an unexplained difference in the LR Export file size using ZIP compression. I mentioned it in the reply here:

https://console.getsatisfaction.com/photoshop_family/conversations/lightroom_tiff_compression_settin...




ProPhoto RGB 16 bit with ZIP compression was used for all three of the above files. The LR Export Metadata panel was set to include 'All Metadata' and no options checked to remove data. That's a 9 MB difference, which as I mentioned is not likely due to differences in LR and PS metadata. Using ExifTool the LR Edit in PS and Export file metadata is 12 KB and the PS Save As ZIP file 14 KB.

I did a compare of the files using PS Apply Image as outlined at the below link. Skip page 1 and follow the procedure as outlined in pages 2 and 3.

http://www.digitaldog.net/files/Apply_Image.pdf

I used a Levels Adjustment layer set to 126 and 129 with the 'Apply Image' file. The results are shown below with LR Edit in PS and PS Save As ZIP showing no difference in the Histogram. The second compare for LR Export with ZIP and PS Save As ZIP shows differences in the histogram. Clearly there is something different with the LR Export with ZIP function. Since the file size is significantly smaller this is most likely due to compression artifacts.

Even though the differences are small it begs the question of why. It should be fairly simple to find out why and fix it. I checked Camera Raw 12.3 Save & Convert with the same export settings and it exhibits a similar smaller file size (108,101 KB). Please let me know if you need further information.
Inspiring
June 17, 2020
Lol at "thank you for your patience" on a fix for an eight-year-old bug.
Inspiring
June 16, 2020
Can you elaborate? Do we not need to use "Save As" anymore while saving a file exported from LR? What does simply saving a file do after the fix?
Inspiring
June 16, 2020
Can you elaborate? Do we not need to use "Save As" anymore while saving a file exported from LR? What does simply saving a file do after the fix?
Rikk Flohr_Photography
Community Manager
June 16, 2020
Version 9.3, an update to Lightroom Classic, went live on June 15, 2020 and contains a fix for this issue. Please install the update and respond back if it does not cure the issue for you. Thank you for your patience!
Rikk Flohr: Adobe Photography Org