Stan Carmichael

More Great Advise jorismak, Thank You. I now have my Boxing Day project. I am using Capture One 10, perhaps I will try defaulting to the '9' engine, didn't consider that. Hope you all have a Merry Christmas, Stan

Thanks jorismak, I have been in this industry for a long time, I sometimes yearn for the good old days before standard platforms, then I remember the price we paid for closed loop systems. Fortunately I was selling them and got paid commission... I have no issue processing the files in Affinity Photo and also use Nik software when needed. I am favouring the raw conversion in Capture One for my NEF files and want to keep a unified file system for electronic-capture and scanned files. Using LR for this task alone seems a waste of energy and I am not a fan of cloud-based solutions. I don't think the issue is with Affinity Photo alone, the files from VueScan don't open in Capture One as well. It may well be a unique implementation in Capture One. Again, I think I ask too much. And thanks to you and Kodiak for your supportive response. I'll keep you posted if and when I find an 'Adobe-Free' solution. Stan

Keith, I "Suggest" nothing at all, I explained how and why DPI has become a popular, if not always correctly used term. It is an indication of language migrating to popular acceptance. Remember: "Energy Flows in the Path of Least Resistance". The next time someone asks you for a Kleenex, do they want a tissue or a certain brand of tissue? You live in England so, you might 'Hoover' instead of vacuum. We all know Hoover is a proper-noun not a verb. Both popular, both technically incorrect but now, accepted language. The term DPI will flourish in our language, it rolls off the tongue well and sounds cooler than LPI or PPI. Not correct at all, but cool and commonly acceptable. Stan

Marj, you are right-on! But don't hold your breath... I have worked with electronic imaging solutions since 1981 and at the outset of "Desktop Publishing" in the late 80's the language migrated from 'technically correct' to 'marketing cool', it would be difficult to reverse the trend now. It was more important for copier companies to communicate with corporate types than to conform to technically correct terms. This pre-dates digital workflow in photography by over a decade. Follow the money and you'll find the answer. Selling laser and inkjet printers into the office market was, and still is, huge business. Additionally, most graphics software is also geared to a less sophisticated (non-professional) market. Thirty-years ago presentations were created by graphic artists not office-clerks and sales-people, and it shows... So, as long as there is money to be made, we will favour 'cool' over 'correct' and 'common' over 'correct' because no-one chooses 'correct' over 'money and acceptance'. For those who might be interested: DPI = the pitch or frequency of a print head in a laser or inkjet printer. It is not a measurement of dimension. It tells us the number of laser beam exposures or inkjet droplets used to image per-inch of image. PPI = the number of pixels-per-inch in a raster image (tiff, jpeg, png etc.). Metric uses the term 'res' for lines per mm. e.g. 'res12' which = 304ppi. LPI = "Lines-per-Inch" LPI referred to screen frequency for half tone images and graphics used to make printing plates and display resolution. For example, we print the photos in a magazine @ 175lpi which requires tiff files of 300ppi for ideal quality. Enjoy, but don't waste time over this, Stan

Thanks for the help Kodiak, Unfortunately, I had already tried that. The files are scans from an Epson using VueScan, if that helps further. I need a film solution as well as electronic capture in the workflow, perhaps I expect too much. Stan

Bonjour Kodiak, Yes 'enable Tiff editing' is selected. I believe the problem is with the 'alpha channel'. Other {not to be mentioned} application's tiff exports open just fine. Stan

I am attempting to reduce or eliminate Adobe from my workflow. I have encountered a problem when exporting scanned images from Affinity Photo to Capture One. It seems that the .tif files contain an alpha channel that is not compatible with Capture One. This is not the case when exporting from Lightroom or Photoshop (both due for replacement). Has anyone else encountered this issue? Can you suggest solution? Thanks, Stan