Re: The Creative Gouge
Re: The Creative Gouge
- Subject: Re: The Creative Gouge
- From: Jonathan Taylor <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 08 May 2013 10:30:38 -0400
Regarding TIFFs vs PSDs an industry standard, archival file format, I must
disagreed with you Andrew.
Please correct me if I am mistaken, but there's no way for a TIFF file to
support most non-destructive editing features such as: ACR Smart Objects,
Adjustment Layers, Smart Filters, Layer Styles, and editable text layers.
All of these things make a PSD a much more rich archival format than
anything else. Want to strip away edits to see the original scan/capture?
Only a PSD can do this. (DNGs can do this as well but NOT for most PS
edits.) This combined with the fact that these non-destructive editing
layers allows you to pretty exactly see how and image has been edited make
PSD really the only choice for preserving a maximum of information.
With 24+ years running I'm confident that that my PSDs will always be able
to be read somehow by some software even when I'm dead or 100 years from
now. There is too much critical mass, too much human creative investment
for PSD to fail. Adobe, sure, they may fail. It's like MS .doc format.
Effectively _we_ already own PSD and DOC and Microsoft and Adobe are
somewhat irrelevant.
jt
On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 10:11 AM, Andrew Rodney <email@hidden>wrote:
> LR can work with PSDs. What LR can't do, and it doesn't matter if it's a
> TIFF or a PSD is it can't handle a layered image in Develop without making
> a flattened version.
>
> ACR in CC CAN open and work with PSD files. It's now a filter and can
> operate on any open document.
>
> But yes, you point out another downside of PSD as opposed to TIFF. TIFF is
> more flexible and certainly a far more common file type to be using for
> handing off images and certainly for archival storage! Anyone who's
> concered about storing their layered images should avoid PSD and use TIFF.
>
> Andrew Rodney
> http://www.digitaldog.net/
>
> On May 8, 2013, at 8:04 AM, "LdaSignup" <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> > Also not meaning to hijack the thread ...
> > Oddly, my experience is that LR can work with PSD's, but ACR can't. So
> PSD's are in some sense less compatible with PS than tiff's. Somehow, to me
> that seems flawed. Or not?
> >
> > -----Original Message----- From: Andrew Rodney
> >
> > OT but you should educate them to stop insisting on PSD
>
>
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