Painter files in LR

[wsolum]

In the past when I work in Painter I've always saved it as a .rif file unless I intended to open it in Photoshop.  I did this because .rif is supposed to be the native file format for Painter and preserves all the editing capabilities, etc.

I now want my painter files managed by LR so which format comes closest to preserving all the layers and features of painter but is indexable and viewable in LR?

Wayne

[Schewe]

I now want my painter files managed by LR so which format comes closest to preserving all the layers and features of painter but is indexable and viewable in LR?
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TIFF, PSD or JPEG are your only choices...and it would be a cold day in hell that Lightroom would read an RIF file...

[wsolum]

TIFF, PSD or JPEG are your only choices...and it would be a cold day in hell that Lightroom would read an RIF file...
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Too bad.  I remember an Adobe rep at Imaging USA 2007 saying that Adobe left out some brush feature at the request of Corel which made me think they were on cooperative terms.  I guess that was a polite way of saying they were threatened.

[Craig Murphy]

I attended a week long seminar with Fay Sirkis (Painter Master etc, etc)  She does not save anything as RIF file.  Not necessary.

[wsolum]

Then which does she prefer?  Doe Tif and PSD preserve all the layers (watercolor and liquid ink as well)?

I attended a week long seminar with Fay Sirkis (Painter Master etc, etc)  She does not save anything as RIF file.  Not necessary.
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