Export TIFF with Layers

[AiDon]

Hi,

 

It seems that the only way to export a layered document is AFphoto or PSD formats, is it likely that Affinity Photo will be able to export layered TIF files as it is more universal that PSD?

[MEB]

Hi AiDon,

Please check this thread for information about layered TIFF files and how to handle them.

[AiDon]

Hi AiDon,

Please check this thread for information about layered TIFF files and how to handle them.

 

Thank you, I didn't know that it was only Adobe, but the one bonus is that you do flatten your TIFF images.

 

Thank you.

[jorismak]

Although correct on the PNG things, as far as I know there is such a thing as official layered TIFFs. The Adobe metadata is used to store things such as blending mode and opacity which isn't normal spec.

 

Normal layered TIFFs are saved as a multipage-tiff with a tag to indicate the multiple pages are in fact layers instead of multiple pages.

 

What's more, Imagemagick seems to handle them just fine and they're normally very quick to say "it's not official spec, not doing work on it" :).

 

Then again, I guess it's not really about the TIFF support in this case. People just want a way to save simple layers (just the pixel information) from PS into Photo _and back again_ (Or from PhotoPlus into Photo or PS and back). Just some format to export something with layers into (most) other programs.

 

I guess an option to save all layers as _different files_ with some automatic mode (if it's not there already) could also help. You type the base filename, for example 'myexport'. And Photo automatically creates a 'myexport_bg.png', 'myexport_0.png', 'myexport_1.png' for (in this example) the 3 layers in the file.

Maybe even 'myexport_g0_0.png' for the first layer in the first group?

It's nothing official, but very transparent / open and it at least allows people to open the project as layers in different apps (With some manual loading or perhaps a PS-script?)