Pssst....A couple Photoshop questions...

[Miramonti]

I'm scanning on a Nikon slide scanner and when I scan to 12bit (per channel), saved as .tif files and then open them in Photoshop 6, I can't use the photoshop tools and most of the plugins, only the adjustment sliders etc. Photoshop recognizes these files as 16bit but says that I must convert them to 8bit first. Only when I scan in 8bit (per channel) can I get the full photoshop functionality. Whats up with this?

How do I convert 12bit files to 8bit?

Also, when I open the tiff files in Photoshop 6 I can't save them to .jpg format. Do I need a special program to convert from .tif to jpg?

 

[richleader]

No, it's just the color tables are incompatible with jpeg. Go to the image menu, select mode, and the rest is pretty obvious.

 

[Miramonti]

Richleader thanks alot for the tip, thats excellent.