UPDATE – I figured out a workaround. I saved a copy of my output file from Deep Sky Stacker as a 32-bit integer file, and I can save the edited images out of Photoshop as viewable TIFs!

Not sure what happened, or what the original format of the the output file is, but all’s well that ends well.

Hi Brendon, sorry I missed one of your questions…yes, I tried “merging” and “flattening” the layers/image, same result in the output.

Thanks!

Gary

Hi Brendon –

Thanks for checking in and taking a swing at it!

I am working in 16 bit, since many of the astronomy actions I use need 16 bit.

The source file is a 32-bit TIF from a program called “Deep Sky Stacker”. It’s a program I’ve used for some time to combine the multiple (long) exposures into a single image. When I bring into Photoshop…

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Hello! A new astrophotographer and new Photoshop CC user here, with a strange problem. Up until about 5 days ago, I could save a “shareable” version of an image in TIF format using the standard “discard layers and save a copy”. This morning, when I attempted to save my latest image, it was unreadable in everything except Adobe Bridge. If I…

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