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Raw & Post Processing, Printing => Digital Image Processing => Topic started by: JimAscher on November 07, 2011, 12:04:28 am

Title: Saving & Exporting Large Panorama Files with Photoshop
Post by: JimAscher on November 07, 2011, 12:04:28 am
Today I created a large panorama photo by sending 18 RAW captures to the Photoshop CS5 Photomerge function for editing. A panorama photo was apparently successfully created but when I tried to save it as tiff and return to Lightroom, a message appeared in PS saying that any photo larger than 4GB could not be saved as tiff, that I would have to save it with some other, less large format or method.  I wanted to save it in an uncompressed form, thus certainly not as a jpeg.  I noticed when I tried again using the "Save As" function, I was given an option to save it as a copy in tiff rather than in layered form.  Would such a "copy' remain uncompressed?  What disadvantages might there be with saving it as a copy?     
Title: Re: Saving & Exporting Large Panorama Files with Photoshop
Post by: NikoJorj on November 07, 2011, 06:08:01 am
I'd think PSB is the way to go for >4GB files...
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/photoshop/cs/using/WSfd1234e1c4b69f30ea53e41001031ab64-7782a.html
Title: Re: Saving & Exporting Large Panorama Files with Photoshop
Post by: JimAscher on November 07, 2011, 09:42:49 am
I'd think PSB is the way to go for >4GB files...
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/photoshop/cs/using/WSfd1234e1c4b69f30ea53e41001031ab64-7782a.html

Niko:  Thanks.  That link definitely pointed me in the right direction.
Title: Re: Saving & Exporting Large Panorama Files with Photoshop
Post by: Schewe on November 07, 2011, 01:42:44 pm
Just note that if you save as a PSB format, Lightroom can't parse it so you won't be able to import the PSB into Lightroom. I save the layered image in PSB then flatten the image and save as a TIFF for use in LR.
Title: Re: Saving & Exporting Large Panorama Files with Photoshop
Post by: JimAscher on November 07, 2011, 02:10:58 pm
Just note that if you save as a PSB format, Lightroom can't parse it so you won't be able to import the PSB into Lightroom. I save the layered image in PSB then flatten the image and save as a TIFF for use in LR.

Jeff;  Is flattening the image the same as saving it as a copy?  Because, of course I do want to import it back into Lightroom.  Thanks, Jim
Title: Re: Saving & Exporting Large Panorama Files with Photoshop
Post by: BernardLanguillier on November 08, 2011, 06:38:55 pm
Jeff;  Is flattening the image the same as saving it as a copy?  Because, of course I do want to import it back into Lightroom.  Thanks, Jim

No, flattening is about merging the layers into one, which does reduce the file size. It does therefore limit the storage impact of having 2 seperate versions of the same image (one .psb and one .tiff).

Cheers,
Bernard
Title: Re: Saving & Exporting Large Panorama Files with Photoshop
Post by: JimAscher on November 08, 2011, 06:47:35 pm
No, flattening is about merging the layers into one, which does reduce the file size. It does therefore limit the storage impact of having 2 seperate versions of the same image (one .psb and one .tiff).

Cheers,
Bernard

Bernard:  Excuse my ignorance, but is "flattening" an option designated at some point in the saving process?  Regards, Jim
Title: Re: Saving & Exporting Large Panorama Files with Photoshop
Post by: francois on November 09, 2011, 06:39:30 am
Bernard:  Excuse my ignorance, but is "flattening" an option designated at some point in the saving process?  Regards, Jim

Jim,
Unless there's a way to flatten in the saving process (unknown to me), you flatten the image before saving: Layer > Flatten Image

HTH
Title: Re: Saving & Exporting Large Panorama Files with Photoshop
Post by: JimAscher on November 09, 2011, 06:58:27 am
Jim,
Unless there's a way to flatten in the saving process (unknown to me), you flatten the image before saving: Layer > Flatten Image

HTH

Aha!  So that's the way to do it.  Thanks.
Title: Re: Saving & Exporting Large Panorama Files with Photoshop
Post by: Nigel Johnson on November 10, 2011, 10:58:50 am
Bernard:  Excuse my ignorance, but is "flattening" an option designated at some point in the saving process?  Regards, Jim

Jim

In the save as dialogue (at least on the Mac) when the format is selected as TIFF there is a preselected checkbox labelled 'Layers' - if you un-tick this box the saved TIFF will be flattened (ie saved without layers).

Regards
Nigel
Title: Re: Saving & Exporting Large Panorama Files with Photoshop
Post by: JimAscher on November 10, 2011, 11:09:13 am
Jim

In the save as dialogue (at least on the Mac) when the format is selected as TIFF there is a preselected checkbox labelled 'Layers' - if you un-tick this box the saved TIFF will be flattened (ie saved without layers).

Regards
Nigel

Nigel:  Thanks, that seems to be the case also in Windows.  Jim
Title: Re: Saving & Exporting Large Panorama Files with Photoshop
Post by: Bill Koenig on December 14, 2011, 03:29:03 pm
Make a duplicate of your master file, then flatten the duplicate and save as a TIFF with a different name.
You never want to flatten your master file.
Title: Re: Saving & Exporting Large Panorama Files with Photoshop
Post by: TerenceK on April 28, 2013, 12:53:18 pm
If you click off save layers it will save only the current layer, not flatten it.
You lose all the other layers.