P: Photoshop 23.0 - cannot open TIF files, generated in other programs

@defaultjnfyeig92uik The issue is that your "simple tif file" is not compliant with the full tiff specification, if it was, Photoshop would open it. Please raise it with the owners of the third party app which is outputing such a tif.

Adobe have made the change to close a backdoor security loophole. Now that backdoor is well known, you can guarantee that the malware producers will be exploiting it. You're absolutely right that "time = $" which is why you really don't want such a security issue to hit your system.

Dave

Same exact thing is happening to me...adobe please lighten up we dont need so much security were all paying a good amount of money yearly for your app not to be able to open a simple tif file....extremley dissapointed and awating a solution asap ..time

= $

This is wonr because there is a problem with Starnett++ version 1.1 i cannot open any of the Tif files created by this program. this is extremley frustrating as this program is essential to my astrophotagraphy editing process. We need a fix asap as everything was working fine then all of a sudden POOF! it stopped working PLEASE HELP! 😞 i cannot use a third party app as it messes with the meta data and in this style of photography every bit and every bit of data counts

Deepskystacker 4.2.6 and Starnet++ 1.1

@Colin5E09 can you specify the versions of both programs so I can tag them?

I am a user of 22.5.2 and have not had any issues opening TIFF files generated by Deepskystacker and Starnet++

@jazz-y 

A couple more "no problems" to add to the list :

Blender (saved with no compression)

World Creator 2

Techsmith Snagit

Dave

@Verto 

Spot on ! 🙂

Dave

@davescm

"We should though be directing some of these comments to the owners of those applications that are outputing non-compliant TIFFs, not just to Adobe who are closing the security loophole."

Right, and as far as I'm concerned, I've made two review requests myself, to two manufacturers of the software I work with. Adobe is just one more.

I have great idea since this problem you raised in the original post affects you as well as many of us. You, as an author of this thread, to support Adobe developers in solving Tiff security issue may every once a while update your starting post of applications the users mentinoed in their posts that still don't work with latest release of Photoshop and those that already do, like one you now announced. There would be 2 lists. White and Black, you or some other ACP would update as well as move a 'black' item to 'white' items when the application form black list has been finally addapted to work with Photoshop 2022 (in context of Tiffs). Something like:

White List:

- PatchTool utility (BabelColor)

Black list:

- some application
- some other application
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You could also write in your first post the contact to Adobe developers (maybe there is a chance for some dedicated one for this matter?), so the users from here could contact the other applications providers to bring their attention at this topic and possibility for co-working (in the background) with Adobe. Still Photoshop developers would try to find their solution independly, but ine the meantime other brands would join the action to alternatively make their programs compatible with present requiements.

Ps. the listed items can be posted as hyperlinks, changed to name of the program they represent

@davescm, absolutely agree with you.
I had a problem with TIF files generated by the PatchTool utility (BabelColor), I contacted the author, helped him establish contact with the Adobe staff. After being given all the necessary technical information, he was able to quickly resolve the problem:

As I understand it, the problem is that third-party software developers do not keep track of current TIF specifications- in certain situations this can be a serious security problem (so serious that Adobe removed all versions of Photoshop older than 22.5. that supported working with such files). At the same time, the solution of the problem on the part of Adobe is more complicated - since they do not know all the parameters that were used to create the TIF file, they need to fully analyze the file, carry out a number of calculations to add the missing attributes so that, on the one hand, bring it to the standard, and on the other hand, preserve its integrity (I admit that the solution they implement will not provide full compatibility with 100% of tif files).