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Regina YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 4 CA	support for .tif files May 12th, 2005, 6:46am   I can use .jpgs but not .tifs. Is there a workaround, or correct way to use .tifs? I was hoping to use a cut-out image. Maybe it would be possible to create a sort of mask in processing? Regina

fjen God Member Offline Posts: 965	Re: support for .tif files Reply #1 - May 13th, 2005, 8:55pm   try .tga (or targa). it's 32bit, that's RGB and an alpha-channel. F

K. Damkjer Junior Member Offline Posts: 72 FL	Re: support for .tif files Reply #2 - May 14th, 2005, 3:01pm   Another question to those of you having trouble with TIF. Are you using uncompressed or compressed (ZIP, LZW, JPG) TIFs? Does P5 understand compressed TIF formats?

fjen God Member Offline Posts: 965	Re: support for .tif files Reply #3 - May 14th, 2005, 3:05pm   who says it does at all? http://processing.org/reference/loadImage_.html F

K. Damkjer Junior Member Offline Posts: 72 FL	Re: support for .tif files Reply #4 - May 14th, 2005, 3:16pm   Hmm... so I guess that means it doesn't understand compressed TIFs heh... thanks for pointing that out.