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Subject: Re: [Tiff] Extracting layers from a TIFF file
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Hello Mitesh,

Wednesday, December 17, 2008, 1:34:24 PM, you wrote:

M> Our tiff files are created in Photoshop composing of several layers (50 +)
M> and then saved in a tiff file.
M> Now I have to write code to separate each layer information embedded in the
M> tiff file and GENERATE A SEPARATE FILE for each layer. Or in other words
M> decompose the combined layers
M> There is a confusion about multipage, layers and channels.
M> Can somebody explain in detail what are the above?
M> Do you all mean to say in Tiff layer data is stored as channels?

When you export a TIFF file, Photoshop puts each layer into a separate
TIFF channel. (It also writes a custom TIFF tag with some information
about those layers.) So, if you split the TIFF into separate channels,
you should get what you need.

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WBR,
 Igor                            mailto:skochinsky@mail.ru

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