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El Coach
El Coach
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October 24, 2017
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LR will not import TiFF files

  • October 24, 2017
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When an image I edited in Aurora 2018 and saved as a TIFF file could not be read and imported by LRC. I decided to edit the same image in both Luminar as well as Topaz Studio. Each file was saved in a TIFF format and none of them were read or imported by LRC. Any thoughts or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

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Correct answer Rob_Cullen

John,

My operating system is Mac 10.12.6 Sierra.and LR is 7.0 Release. I have

heard back from the Macphun team and they state that they are using standar

TIFF coding.

Very much appreciate your help.

Stephen Campbell

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On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 12:43 PM, johnrellis <forums_noreply@adobe.com>


Perhaps the colon : in the filenames is the problem. Lightroom sees this as an illegal character.

I downloaded the file and my Windows automatically inserted an underscore to replace the colon.

Lightroom had no trouble importing the (renamed) file.

And a quote from- Filename Conventions and Compatibility

The only illegal character for file and folder names in Mac OS 9 is the

colon ":"

Edit:  beat me to the answer by 3 minutes

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david hundley photography
Participant
December 1, 2022

I am having the same issue. In fact, LrC will not import, or even see TIFF, psd and psb files stored on my external HD created by photoshop. LrC is seeing NEF and jpeg files. Any thoughts? 

    charlenetribe
    charlenetribe
    Participant
    September 3, 2023

    I'm wondering if you found any answers because I am having the same thing happen.  It won't see anything on my external drive with those extensions.

    Abambo
    Community Expert
    AbamboCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    September 3, 2023

    Post a screencopy of you filenames. Or attach one of the problematic TIFF files here. (be sure that the size is below the maximal posting size here!).

     

    BTW: if your file is a CMYK TIFF file, I doubt that Lightroom will import it. I'm not sure about the other color coding models supported by TIFF. PSB files are probably also unsupported.

    ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer
    JP Hess
    JP Hess
    Inspiring
    October 24, 2017

    I wonder if Aurora is creating a nonstandard TIF file. I have numerous TIF files created by Photoshop In my Lightroom catalog.

      El Coach
      El CoachAuthor
      Known Participant
      October 25, 2017

      Jim,

      Thanks for your response. I was wondering the same. I did the very same thing in the other Macphun product Luminar. Again, I saved in a TIFF format and LRC could read it or import it. I then tried it Topaz Labs Topaz Studio and had the very same experience.

      How can I find out if they are using a non-standard TIF format?

      This does not happen when I round-trip out of LRC. I presume because LRC is creating the TIFF file. But then when the other program returns the file it would not be able to do so unless both Topaz and Macphun are both using proprietary non-standard TIFF file format only when in a standalone mode.

      Your thoughts?

      Thanks

      JP Hess
      JP Hess
      Inspiring
      October 25, 2017

      I'm afraid that's beyond my expertise. Hopefully our discussion will draw attention from some of the more technical experts who watch this forum.

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