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[Fixed] convert bit depth on B&W tiff?

Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2023 10:51 pm
by silsurf
I have several hundred B&W scans that were made for me I am trying to import in Adobe Lightroom. Lightroom doesnt support 1bit tiff file importation. I dont really cares what format the files are in, but they are currently in .tiff and I assume keeping .tiif for storage.

I know I can convert them with GC, but I have having trouble finding the setting to change the bit depth? Or maybe there is another setting I can change to overcome this limitation in Lightroom.

Thanks for suggestions and guidance

Henry

Re: convert bit depth on B&W tiff?

Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2023 6:18 am
by forum_adm
GraphicConverter does currently automatically reduce grayscale to one bit if only black&white is used.

I implement a new checkbox to disable this the next days.

Re: convert bit depth on B&W tiff?

Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2023 4:13 pm
by forum_adm
Please download the latest BETA:
http://www.lemkesoft.org/beta.html

Open a TIFF.
Select File > Save As
Click onto options and uncheck the following:
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Now save the file. Your bilevel TIFF will be saved as a grayscale TIFF.

You can do that in batch, too.

Thorsten