I was able to open the image in IrfanView.
IrfanView’s ‘Information’ function says that the "image" is saved in
Group 3 Fax Encoding – 2 pages
format. This is a (somewhat) obscure format for those of us in the graphics ‘field," and is (also somewhat) obsolescent
[I think the ‘current’ FAX file format is CCITT Group 4).
The image might be from on "older" FAX machine.
Correspondingly, PhotoShop is not set up to "deal" with this file format. PS will show only the top layer … and
PhotoShop Elements 2 doesn’t even admit to the existence of the second page/layer. The GIMP however, does show both
"pages" as Layers, and can navigate between them using the Layer Dialog.
Here’s how you can deal with it:
First Method:
(1) Open the image with a graphics file viewer that can view both "pages" … such as IrfanView or ACDCee you originally used;
(2) Copy each ‘page’ (layer) to the clipboard;
(3) Start (or switch to) PhotoShop;
(4) Use the Menu/File/New File from Clipboard function to make and then save a new image file for each page;
(5) Edit away.
Second Method (applies only if you have ‘The GIMP’
installed)
(1) Open the image with The GIMP;
(2) Navigate to the ‘Layer’ you wish to modify;
(3) Edit away.
I did *not* however test to see if ‘The GIMP’ would resave the modified file in the Group 3 Fax Encoding format. Unless you have an overriding reason to do so, I would suggest
saving the modified file as two separate TIFF files.
"Ace" wrote in message
I didn’t know a tiff file can have two images inside. How
is that done?
Can a tiff file have more than two images inside?
I know the file has two images because I used Acdsee to
view it. Acdsee
has a "Next Page" button allow me to see the second image.
I want to
modify the file a bit so I open the file in Photoshop.
But I only see
the first image. How can I get to the second image?