Aidren Posted October 20, 2023 Posted October 20, 2023 I am embarking on getting many old photos scanned for my genealogy family history projects and decided to use Amazon Photos for storage as I have a Prime account. Weirdly, they list all the image file types but for tiffs it says "most TIFFS". Guess what..... AP tiffs will not upload. I have tried a work around by exporting a tiff from AP and then taking it to DigiKam and re-exporting. This works most of the time but the file size is often tripled. I know this is a big ask... but might the AP team have a look at this to see if there is a realistic and simpler fix. I use the Affinity products and want to continue. If I export to JPG it works. The problem here is the Genealogy and Historical world have archival guideline standards and they don't include lossy jpgs. Today, the top choice is still a tiff (not even a jpg 2000 or jpg xl). Thanks. Hope you may be able to help. AidrenKayce Quote
carl123 Posted October 20, 2023 Posted October 20, 2023 In AP on the tiff export screen change the default compression from ZIP to ZIPPO (i.e None) Quote To save time I am currently using an automated AI to reply to some posts on this forum. If any of "my" posts are wrong or appear to be total b*ll*cks they are the ones generated by the AI. If correct they were probably mine. I apologise for any mistakes made by my AI - I'm sure it will improve with time.
Aidren Posted October 20, 2023 Author Posted October 20, 2023 THANK YOU CARL! I can't believe I couldn't figure that out. Wow... what an oversight. Now I understand why the files were growing when I put them through Digikam.... I am guessing there was no compression or it was stripping. Does that make sense?? Thanks again. Quote
walt.farrell Posted October 20, 2023 Posted October 20, 2023 5 hours ago, carl123 said: In AP on the tiff export screen change the default compression from ZIP to ZIPPO (i.e None) Or perhaps LZW would work? Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.3.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1
Aidren Posted November 7, 2023 Author Posted November 7, 2023 Sorry for the delayed reply. I will look into LZW. Archival world standards prefer no compression, but I may decide to go there just to save on some space. Thanks again. Quote
MxHeppa Posted November 7, 2023 Posted November 7, 2023 at least earlier many printing companies disliked these compressions what i know. why i dont know. from this not accept file i thing want say: i remember time when two programs (where other is industry standard at its time (Photoshop 5) and other maybe homeusage standard at sametime (Paint Shop Pro 4)) messed PNG files way other one crahs even other one. point is amazing when even famous tool can be broken sometimes... but luckily no Affinity Photo at least this case what we talk.(TIFF thing). Quote
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