I bought Corel Draw & PhotoPaint 8 about 3 years ago. For the past year I've been learning PhotoPaint, using PhotoCD scans. Now I have an LS 2000, and found the following dilemmas on scanning my first slide. Can anyone help? The version of Nikon Scan is 2.1.1.
1. I saved the slide as a TIF file. Then PhotoPaint 8 wouldn't open it, saying "Illegal Tag Value." I got this message with both 8 and 12 bit scans. PhotoPaint 8 otherwise opens and saves TIF files just fine. Using Conversions Plus, I converted the file to BMP. This lost half the file size. (Does BMP not go beyond 8 bits?) But PhotoPaint 8 opened it just fine. Then using Hijaak, I opened the original TIF file and trimmed off the black border from the scan. I saved it as TIF, and this time PhotoPaint 8 opened the file fine. So PhotoPaint doesn't like the black scan border saved as TIF. 2. But for all images, PhotoPaint 8's "Effects" tools were nearly all grayed out. I've never had this happen before, and I use some of these regularly. They work fine otherwise. So can anyone tell me what's going on, and what to do? Having just bought a scanner, I don't want to have to buy new or updated software right away (Corel is now up to version 10). Thanks, Joe - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
