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Title: Alpha Channels's titles in TIFF?
Post by: diuming on March 26, 2020, 05:07:24 AM

I have a TIFF file is CMYK + 3 alpha channles.
Can I setting alpha channels's titles in the TIFF file using exiftool than photoshop can show each alpha channel's title.
thx.

Title: Re: Alpha Channels's titles in TIFF?
Post by: Phil Harvey on March 26, 2020, 07:40:37 AM

Great,

It may be helpful to others if you could give a concrete example of a command that you used.

- Phil

Title: Re: Alpha Channels's titles in TIFF?
Post by: diuming on March 26, 2020, 09:05:22 PM

reexplanation

I have an TIFF Image that composed of CMYK + 3 alpha channels.
Can I add a name for each alpha channel?
please! refer to following, thanks

Example
---- XMP-photoshop ----
Color Mode : CMYK
---- IPTC ----
Application Record Version : 0
---- Photoshop ----
IPTC Digest : e8f15cf32fc118a1a27b67adc564d5ba
Print Info 2 : ...printOutput.PstSbool.InteenumInteClrm.printSixteenBitbool.printerNameTEXT..printProofSetupObjc.Proof Setup.proofSetup.Bltnenum.builtinProof.proofCMYK
Print Style : ...printOutputOptions.CptnboolClbrboolRgsMboolCrnCboolCntCboolLblsboolNgtvboolEmlDboolIntrboolBckgObjc.RGBC.Rd doub@o‡Grn doub@o‡Bl doub@o‡BrdTUntF#RltBld UntF#RltRsltUntF#Pxl@v.ÎÄ.vectorDatabool.PgPsenumPgPsPgPCLeftUntF#RltTop UntF#RltScl UntF#Prc@Y.cropWhenPrintingbool.cropRectBottomlong.cropRectLeftlong.cropRectRightlong.cropRectToplong
X Resolution : 359.99
Displayed Units X : inches
Y Resolution : 359.99
Displayed Units Y : inches
Print Style : Centered
Print Position : 0 0
Print Scale : 1
Alpha Channels Names : Spot Color 1, Alpha 3, Alpha 4
Unicode Alpha Names : .Spot Color 1.Alpha 3.Alpha 4
Display Info : .34ôô34..RRœœ¿¿..RRœœ¿¿.
Alpha Identifiers : ...
Alternate Spot Colors : ....."Ó..∑
Background Color : ˇˇˇˇˇˇ
Global Angle : 90
Global Altitude : 30
Print Flags : 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Print Flags Info : ..
Color Halftoning Info : /ff.lff../ff.°ôö..2.Z..5.-..
Color Transfer Funcs : ˇˇˇˇˇˇˇˇˇˇˇˇˇˇˇˇˇˇˇˇˇˇ.Ëˇˇˇˇˇˇˇˇˇˇˇˇˇˇˇˇˇˇˇˇˇˇ.Ëˇˇˇˇˇˇˇˇˇˇˇˇˇˇˇˇˇˇˇˇˇˇ.Ëˇˇˇˇˇˇˇˇˇˇˇˇˇˇˇˇˇˇˇˇˇˇ.Ë
Spot Halftone : ...
Grid Guides Info : ..@.@
URL List :
Slices Group Name : bands
Num Slices : 1
Pixel Aspect Ratio : 1
ICC Untagged : 1
IDs Base Value : 6
Photoshop Thumbnail : (Binary data 2601 bytes, use -b option to extract)
Has Real Merged Data : Yes

Title: Re: Alpha Channels's titles in TIFF?
Post by: Phil Harvey on March 26, 2020, 09:50:57 PM

I see. Unfortunately, those tags are not writable by ExifTool (see here (https://exiftool.org/TagNames/Photoshop.html)).

- Phil

Title: Re: Alpha Channels's titles in TIFF?
Post by: diuming on March 27, 2020, 02:47:19 AM

thanks for reply.

Is there a chance using Adobe XMP Toolkit SDK to read, write, and update?
thanks

Title: Re: Alpha Channels's titles in TIFF?
Post by: StarGeek on March 27, 2020, 02:50:54 AM

As those tags are part of the Photoshop group and not the XMP group, I would doubt that the XMP toolkit would be able to change them.

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