Invalid TIFF

[putrigo]

I recently tried to use RegiStax V6, I converted my pictures I wanted to stack/process to TIF. When I selected and then tried to open the pictures, it said I had an "invalid TIFF header." I've named the files "1," "2," "3," if that's useful. How do I fix my problem?

[AstroMuni]

Could you upload a single file here so we can check

[Budgie1]

What file format were they before you converted them to TIF and how did you do the conversion?

[putrigo]

1 hour ago, AstroMuni said:

Could you upload a single file here so we can check

I will in a while, I'm about to head to school.

[symmetal]

TIFF or TIF files, (they are the same thing), can be in many different variations with multiple layers and compression types and many programs just accept basic uncompressed tiffs. If I have this problem I just load the tiff into Photoshop and resave it as an uncompressed tiff file. This usually solves the problem. Any good free image processing program like Gimp or Irfanview etc. should be able to do this as they should be able to load any tiff file format.

Alan

Edited May 23, 2022 by symmetal

[ollypenrice]

2 hours ago, symmetal said:

TIFF or TIF files, (they are the same thing), can be in many different variations with multiple layers and compression types and many programs just accept basic uncompressed tiffs. If I have this problem I just load the tiff into Photoshop and resave it as an uncompressed tiff file. This usually solves the problem. Any good free image processing program like Gimp or Irfanview etc. should be able to do this as they should be able to load any tiff file format.

Alan

Yup, that's what I have to do to TIFFs created in AstroArt if I want to take them into Registar.

Olly

[The Lazy Astronomer]

TIFF = Thousands (of) Incompatible File Formats 😁

[Alien 13]

If converting pictures from RAW then use Adobe DNG format, much better than TIFF and the converter is free.

Alan

[putrigo]

11 hours ago, symmetal said:

TIFF or TIF files, (they are the same thing), can be in many different variations with multiple layers and compression types and many programs just accept basic uncompressed tiffs. If I have this problem I just load the tiff into Photoshop and resave it as an uncompressed tiff file. This usually solves the problem. Any good free image processing program like Gimp or Irfanview etc. should be able to do this as they should be able to load any tiff file format.

Alan

Okay, thank you!

[putrigo]

On 23/05/2022 at 07:00, putrigo said:

I will in a while, I'm about to head to school.

Shoot, I can't find it right now. I think I do have it somewhere.