Escondido Posted January 11, 2017 Share Posted January 11, 2017 Hi, I am relatively new to Affinity Designer. I was sent a .tiff file of a design and would like to edit the design. I cannot access or separate the layers to edit nor is there anything to 'ungroup'. As far as I can tell, it looks like the file is unlocked. Is it possible it was flattened before being sent to me, and if so how would I confirm this? Ultimately I need to be able to edit the design so please do you have any suggestions for ungrouping or separating layers or 'unflattening'? thank you, Escondido Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gdenby Posted January 12, 2017 Share Posted January 12, 2017 When I save a layered .tif from Photoshop, and open it in AD, the layers are preserved. I think the file may have been flattened, in which case, its just a raster image. Nothing to ungroup, etc. Quote iMac 27" Retina, c. 2015: OS X 10.11.5: 3.3 GHz I c-5: 32 Gb, AMD Radeon R9 M290 2048 Mb iPad 12.9" Retina, iOS 10, 512 Gb, Apple pencil Huion WH1409 tablet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pixelplucker Posted January 12, 2017 Share Posted January 12, 2017 I don't think Tiff format supports layers only modes (grayscale through cmyk+alpha) and have the option for lzw compression. I do think there are multi page tif formats but possible many programs won't open or access all pages. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Escondido Posted January 12, 2017 Author Share Posted January 12, 2017 I received this file from a graphic designer, so it sounds like I need to ask him for the original file so I can make edits? Thank you for the replies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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