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Fail to open a RGBI picture (red-green-blue-infrared) as RGB pic

New Here ,
Feb 19, 2018 Feb 19, 2018

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Hi I have a Picture with RGB and infra-red Channels. But if I open this document, Photoshop recognizes a grayscale picture.

How can I open this document to see the true RGB-Colors? The infrared is not important to me.

The origin picture is from a german-government aerial photography and can be downloaded with this link:

https://www.bezreg-koeln.nrw.de/brk_internet/geobasis/luftbilderzeugnisse/digitale_orthophotos/testd...

The aerial office says this is a "24 BIT - RGBI - True Color" document.

It is 15 MB big

Has anybody experience with this topic?

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Community Expert , Feb 19, 2018 Feb 19, 2018

Looks like you could do Image>Mode>Multichannel, then Image>Mode>RGB Color

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Hi

Go to Image > Mode and change it from Greyscale to RGB Color

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Thanks for your answer! But only changing the color mode does not solve my problem? The picture is still black and white in my photoshop. But i want to bring the colors out of this document, because the download website says this is a RGB-Colored picture - like a google earth picture.

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Looks like you could do Image>Mode>Multichannel, then Image>Mode>RGB Color

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Feb 20, 2018 Feb 20, 2018

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Wow! That is a easy and helpful answer! Thank you! You made my day!!

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Feb 19, 2018 Feb 19, 2018

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The file isn't a JPEG, it's a JPEG2000, so you're supposed to use the Open As... function. If you simply open it the usual way, it opens as an 8-bit grayscale image instead of a 16-bit color image.

Here's what's interesting, though. Apparently this file isn't compatible with Photoshop because the JP2 plugins haven't been updated in a long time while JP2 itself has continued to undergo development. Here's the message I got:

message.jpg

But it opens just fine in Affinity:

affinity.jpg

Unfortunately, that's the only "solution" I've got to offer you. How 'bout them apples, Adobe?

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Feb 20, 2018 Feb 20, 2018

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PBArtattack,

Is your photoshop cc 2017 updated with the latest patch?

You can see the version by going to Help>System Info and the top line is the photoshop version.

The reason i ask is here on a windows 10 machine, neither photoshop cs6 or photoshop cc 2018.1.1 generates an error, but opens the file fine.

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Feb 21, 2018 Feb 21, 2018

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I've got CC, CC2014, CC2015, CC2015.5 and CC2017 and they're all up to date. I've also got two different plugins for JP2 (JPEG2000.8bi and j2k.8bi). No matter which version I try, if I do a plain vanilla Open, the file opens in grayscale, sometimes with a message, sometimes not. If I open it using Open As..., I get the message in my screenshot and then nothing. The mode change business does the trick, although it seems a little convoluted and definitely not intuitive.

It's funny, though, that Affinity Photo simply opens it up without any fuss — and no, I'm not pimping for Affinity. The only reason I even thought of opening it in Affinity is because of what I noticed in my file manager:

JP2 capture.PNG

I don't know what that's about. Affinity hasn't stolen any other file associations.

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Feb 20, 2018 Feb 20, 2018

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nicolai - look at the Channels panel more carefully. RGB + IR is four channels, and they  have solved this with a grayscale plus three alpha channels. All the information is there, but not in a standard RGB format because that only has three channels.

As Jeff says, you can go via Multichannel to RGB. This converts the three first channels into RGB, and leaves the last alpha channel as is. If this is the IR information, you can just ignore that alpha channel, or leave it for future use. You also need to check that the channel assignments are correct - that the red information is indeed in the R channel and not G or B - but if the colors look normal it is.

Incidentally, this has nothing to do with jpeg2000 as was suggested above. It's about 3 vs 4 channels.

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