Swatcher

Thanks, Rick, useful advice. Maybe Canon should read it too! Swatcher

Really?! I'd love to know why. I only use it because it was a way of storing uncompressed images which could be read by my camera's software (DPP). I'm open to suggestions... Thanks for getting in touch. Regards, Swatcher

Nope, you're not crazy but I'm not surprised, having used their s/w for some time. Maybe it's the level of compression it can't read. I might try and point this out to Canon but this may try my patience too much again. How do you find out what level of LZW compression is being applied? Cheers, Swatcher

Thanks for your suggestion, CommanderSozo. I was already on DPP 3.6 but have now upgraded to 3.7 anyway but to no avail, I'm afraid. Glad to hear I don't need glasses. The only uncompressed format DPP reads is TIF so PNG won't do, except as an intermediate save before converting with something else, which is what I have been doing with BMPs. Can anyone from the s/w team confirm that you can't turn off LZW compression when saving TIFs? Regards, Swatcher

Hi all, I am running v3.5.3 (Final Release build 3.53.3690.27077), downloaded in the last day or two. I'm not sure if this is related to a problem I have just discovered with TIF files. I have scanned several old prints using HP scanning software and saved them as TIF, which I then trim and clean with PDN. Up till now that's all I've done with them, beyond a bulk conversion to jpeg using IrfanView, and all has been well. Now, I have decided to edit and export the TIFs with my Canon camera software (DPP). TIFs that I have previously editied with PDN show up fine in DPP and I can export them quite happily. However, possibly since the upgrade but that may be coincidence, TIFs edited in PDN are no longer showing up in DPP - at least, the file is showing but not the thumbnail and consequently I can't edit it. I suspect it may be caused by the LZW compression that PDN is applying to the saved TIF. I could have sworn that there was an option for turning this off in previous versions but I can't even find a preferences dialog. Do I need (new) glasses? Regards, Swatcher