On 06/11/2013 10:02 PM, Frederic Da Vitoria wrote:
2013/6/12 Gnome Nomad <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>

    On 06/11/2013 12:26 PM, Isaac Gouy wrote:



        On Tuesday, May 1, 2012 12:16:20 PM UTC-7, Bruno Postle wrote:

             On Tue 01-May-2012 at 03:35 -0700, AlekseyM wrote:
              >What library Hugin uses to create tiff files? Maybe it is
        possible to
              >add some options to specify different tiff format?

             It would be possible, but the alpha channel in the enblend TIFF
             output is useful since a lot of panoramas have transparent
        areas.



        While I agree that it's useful to support alpha channel (and
        I've used
        that masking capability with Enfuse), It seems that image processing
        software intended for photographers tends not support alpha
        channel TIFF
        even when it does support 48bit TIFF.

        Image processing software intended for a broader audience,
        intended for
        illustrators, is more likely to support alpha channel TIFF.

        For example, the free to use,  Serif Photo Plus Starter Edition,
        opened
        all the problem TIFFs and allowed them to be exported as 24bit
        or 32bit
        TIFF.

        DxO Optics Pro wouldn't open the converted 32bit TIFF but did
        open the
        converted 24bit TIFF.


        Unfortunately it seems very unlikely that the makers of software for
        photographers will be persuaded to support alpha channel TIFF.

        I understand that the conversion is possible with ImageMagick but
        as-well-as my reluctance to install all that stuff on my Windows
        install, even Ubuntu now shows a warning that ImageMagick cannot be
        authenticated (whatever that means).

        Perhaps the better approach would be
        yet-another-utility-program, based
        on libtiff, which strips the alpha channel and could be used after
        Enblend or Enfuse?


    Hmmm, Rawtherapee opens Hugin TIFFs with no problems or complaints.
    GIMP only complains about them being 16-bit per channel. Haven't
    tried opening one in Bibble 5/Aftershot Pro, but that is software
    intended for photographers.


Gimp 2.8.4 on Windows does not complain at all, as far as I can see.

Same version I have here, although I run it on Linux, not Windows.

Does it tell you that the input file has 16-bits per channel, GIMP only supports 8-bits per channel, so it is dropping the other 8 bits per channel? That's the GIMP "complaint" I'm referring to. GIMP doesn't support 48-bit (3 16-bit channels). That's scheduled for GIMP 3.

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