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    Default Free or inexpensice photo editor

    I have used Photoshop for at least 20 years simply to convert a PNG with Alpha transparency to TIFF with the same transparency.

    And to convert an image to grayscale.

    Two things I have given up hope of ever seeing in Xara in my lifetime.

    Photoshop CSS 5 however does not support 4K resolution. So my relationship with Photoshop has come to an end.

    Any recommendations for a simple image editing app that can do these things?

    Simple is better.

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    Default Re: Free or inexpensice photo editor

    affinity photo has greyscale and will open a transparent PNG and export it as a 16bit greyscale TIFF with transparency

    PNG created in xara:

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Name:	box.png 
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ID:	131736

    imported into affinity and then exported as 16bit greyscale TIFF [zipped as TG does not like the format for upload]:

    boxgs.zip

    affinity is a one time purchase; you don't need affinity designer as well to do this, and has a free trial

    [this is alpha-channel transparency, but I think that is all you get with TIFF ?]
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    Default Re: Free or inexpensice photo editor

    Gary, maybe the free for personal use, installable/portable program XNviewMP , is something to look at.
    https://www.xnview.com/en/xnviewmp/

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    Default Re: Free or inexpensice photo editor

    haakoo - Perfect. Grayscale and TIFF with transparency. That's all I need.

    Steve - Affinity would be perfect as well except I just need a simple straightforward way to do these two functions.

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    Default Re: Free or inexpensice photo editor

    Try this, photoshop clone.
    https://www.photopea.com/

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    Default Re: Free or inexpensice photo editor

    How do you save to your computer from Photopea? Oh, never mind, it seems to have saved to my desktop. Better solution because it can also do RGB to CMYK conversion.

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    Default Re: Free or inexpensice photo editor

    Quote Originally Posted by gwpriester View Post
    haakoo - Perfect. Grayscale and TIFF with transparency. That's all I need.

    Steve - Affinity would be perfect as well except I just need a simple straightforward way to do these two functions.
    sure gary, if xnview does the one task you need

    when you install it though, be careful it does not take over image management tasks you use other programs for
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    Default Re: Free or inexpensice photo editor

    don't know photopea; there are a lot of online converters though to choose from
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    Default Re: Free or inexpensice photo editor

    Photopea does what photoshop does for general use which I think is fab.

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    Default Re: Free or inexpensice photo editor

    thanks, I'll check it out
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