@Eigil_Skovgaard I would like to help identifying some mis conceptions.
There is no such "presentation " fonction in RT. nothing is presented.
What is done by the âpainters palletâ is to process the input file according to the processing parameters, put the output in a temporary file, launch the external editor with it (GIMP,âŚ).
A PP3 will be saved alongside the input file.
The input file is not processed. the output file is a photo in whatever format you want (jpeg, tiff, PNG)
What you want I think : you view your multilayered tiff in viewer ( but what viewer can view a multilayered TIFF?) and if you choose sent the file to photoshop.
I suppose you mean the input multilayer TIFF. As there is NO notion of layer at all in RT and therefore, there is NO merge function
RT opens the upper layer, I suppose. It processes it, displays it and export it in your preferred format (TIFF with one layer).
Remember you are in the editor. What you view in the editor is not a âpresentationâ but a preview of the output photo.
remark: the tooltip says âedit current image in external editorâ. Current image is the output image.
- So it seems you need a SW that can take into account multilayered TIFF, display a chosen layer, edit the layer, export the processed Multilayered as a multilayered TIFF and launch phtoshop.
Isnât photoshop itself this SW? or perhaps GIMP
RT doesnât manage anything. It is definitely NOT a DAM.
RT strips nothing from the multilayered TIFF, it is unchanged and present in the same place.
Why you need RT passes a file to photoshop. It is the role of a DAM.
RT doesnât send anything from the file system. It sends the processed output file. Itsâ not a DAM
I suppose RT was never envisioned as a post-processing for photoshop although the contrary is true. see @stuntflyer post.
It has to be considered as a raw processor with also interesting possibilities to process demosaiced photos . It not the swiss knife of graphical design
It has no bitmap
capability.
So to get a photo (displayable file) you still need to merge the different layers with specific blending methods. Is it true?
What worries me in this sentence is that the file browser never displays the âoriginal RAW fileâ.
If there is no PP3, it displays the embedded jpg, otherwise a thumbnail of the output file.
That is sure and the expected behaviour.
That is a problem of photoshop. What is the meaning of the error message?
It could mean that photoshop cannot open multilayered TIFF?
RT is not the way to solve the issue.
The PP3 sidecar file has no impact, only when you open the RT editor.
There is NO slideshow concept in the editor. I should say it is a film strip.
Each time you select a photo, it is processed in order to be displayed.
You can find slideshow in DAM, for instance BRIDGE.
There is no attempt as there is no slideshow.
There is no harm. the multilayered TIFF is unchanged
Not sufficiently accurate. You donât speak about the same thing.
I rewrite correctly the sentence.
The fact remains that when a pp3 file is created for a multilayered TIF, the output TIFF created by RT will not open in Photoshop as such but as a flattened version of the original file.
That is the intended behaviour. The multilayered TIF is UNCHANGED and thus can be viewed as a multilayer file in photoshop.
Conclusion : use a DAM to manage your different assets (photos, internall formats as PSD or multilayered TIIFF, sidecar files, photomontages, slideshowsâŚ).
use RT for what it is developped: process raw and photo formats (jpeg, TIFF,PNG)
There are FOSS DAMs also.