Develop tif files on LR classic

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January 29, 2023
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I was trying to edit some old scanned photos that are .tif files and I cannot open them on the develop seccion of lightroom.

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GoldingD

Legend

When did you scan them?

Old as in old prints just now scanned, or old as in scanned years ago?

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R2commgroupAuthor

Participant

Both old pic and old scan, more than 15 years.

GoldingD

Legend

Go and scan just one photo, a new scan, any photo. then try to import

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Jao vdL

Community Expert

Maybe a long shot but some older scanners generated files that do no conform to the tif standard and Lightroom classic will not be able to edit those. Trick is to find them in finder/explorer, open them in photoshop and save them over the existing file from within photoshop. They should work in Lightroom after doing that. You shouldn't need to reimport after that. Just open and save the actual file outside of Lightroom.