[Digikam-users] TIFF file problems, appears as four separate images in digikam

[D.H.J. Takken]

Hi,

DigiKam is known to fail reading grayscale TIFF images. There is a bug report 
on it on bko. Try scanning to full colour and convert to grayscale PNG or 
JPG. That should work fine.

Dik

On Saturday 01 December 2007 17:51:01 Chris G wrote:
> I relaise that TIFF can present problems because of its many
> variations.
>
> I'm scanning some B&W negatives with my Epson V700 using the Epson
> software and saving as TIFF.  When I open the file in digikam I see
> four little pictures side by side with a row of tiny colured dots
> between each (which are red, green and probably blue).  It looks as if
> digikam is seeing the separate channel scans as separate pictures.
>
> Photoshop Elements understands the TIFF OK.
>
> I've tried the only option in the scanning software, changing from
> Windows to Mac byte order but that had no effect at all.