Exported Tiff file unrecognised in Capture One

[Jim K]

I exported files as .tiff from Capture One Pro 9.   I loaded these into a stack for merging in Affinity Photo.   After merging I exported the result to a .tiff file on disk.   Capture One does not recognise this file as a .tiff.   Capture One support mentioned that the file had no background layer and was exported as layer 0.   I do not know what this means.

I tried saving the file and loading it in a separate document in Affinity Photo and it presented as a background pixel layer.   I then exported this as a .tiff.   Capture One still does not recognise it.   It is not clear to me how I incorporate a background layer so saving and reloading was my attempt to do this.

It seems to me that the Affinity file is not exporting as a standard .tiff for some reason.   When I do the same thing as a .jpg it works perfectly.

Help on this will be greatly appreciated.

Jim

 

 

[Asha]

You should be able to "reclaim" your background layer by flattening the file (Document > Flatten). This is different than merging layers, which can compress a set of layers with no background layer.

[Jim K]

I have also already tried this Asha and unfortunately it is also ineffective.

Jim

[Jim K]

As an update I have had success in merging images without using stacks and getting a usable .tiff.   I presume there is something I am not doing when using 'Stacks'.

Jim

[Scotty88]

>Capture One does not recognise this file as a .tiff.  

>Capture One support mentioned that the file had no

>background layer and was exported as layer 0.   I do not know what this means.

 

I had a similar issue with Capture One importing 16-bit tiff images from hugin (panorama sticher).  Here are my notes to fix that.  (both below commands, identify and convert,  are from imagemagick:  http://www.imagemagick.org )

 

To import panorama tiff outputs from Hugin (2014.0.0) back into 
Phase One Capture One Pro 8,
You need to remove the one-bit alpha-channel added by Hugin:

To see the alpha-channel:  'identify -verbose <hugin-pano.tif>'

To remove the alpha-channel:
'convert <hugin_pano.tif> -alpha off <no_alpha_pano.tif>'