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Scanned Images Read-Only

NNN636171644615965888
Hello,

I scanned several hundred rolls of 35mm B&W negatives into Aperture (using a Plustek OpticFilm 8100 with SilverFast software), viewing and editing the tiff files without problem for a couple of years. I've just moved my full Aperture library into COP and have found that although my digital photos are fine, the scanned images are all read-only. Is there a some sort of batch change that I can perform to make them editable? Thanks for any suggestions.
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    You have to check the colour space of your images. Capture One does not edit images with grey colour space. If it is the reason, you have to open your images with Photoshop, for instance, and change the colour space into an RGB. Then, Capture One will accept to do the job.
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  • NNN636171644615965888
    Hello tenmangu81,

    Thanks for the quick response. According to the ICC Profile in the Process Summary under the Output tab, the images are in Adobe RGB (1998); the Format is TIFF (8-bit) and File Size is ~8 MB. Images that I have previously exported to Pixelmator for editing and brought back into Aperture are not marked read-only, although the Process Summary information is the same as for images that I haven't moved out of Aperture. Does this suggest anything?
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  • NNN636171644615965888
    An update:

    I've done a batch export of a Project (36 files—each Project is a roll of 35mm images) onto the Desktop, then reimported back into COP and the images are now editable.

    A few questions:

    Do I have to go through exporting each Project to the Desktop and re-importing it into COP or is there a way to route it directly back into COP (although this really wouldn't be an export, would it)?

    Or is there an easier way to make the images editable that I haven't discovered yet?

    Thanks for any help.
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  • Permanently deleted user
    [quote="NNN636171644615965888" wrote:
    Hello tenmangu81,

    Thanks for the quick response. According to the ICC Profile in the Process Summary under the Output tab, the images are in Adobe RGB (1998); the Format is TIFF (8-bit) and File Size is ~8 MB.


    What is important is not the ICC profile of the output tab in the process summary, but the ICC profile of the images before any editing (i.e. at the input), and this can be check in the EXIF metadata.

    But I don't understand why going through the desktop solves the issue ❓
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  • NNN636171644615965888
    Me neither... One thing to note: the individual photo files have the suffix ".tif"; when they are reimported, they are marked ".tiff".
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  • Permanently deleted user
    All my TIFF files that I can access for processing in Capture One have the extension ".tif".
    The only ones I couldn't edit were too tiny (e.g. 600x400 px) or grey scale.
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  • NNN636171644615965888
    Well, I've found a workaround:

    Using a Process Recipe, I output the photos on each roll to a file on my desktop. Then, using A Better Finder Rename, I simply add a "f" onto the file extension "tif" to make it "tiff", then import the files back into COP and there's no longer any problem in editing the photos.

    A little clunky, but it works. (Now to do this for several hundred rolls...)
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