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Landsat 7 ETM+ 14.25 meter, converted to pseudo natural-color using the Geocover to Naturaltone plug-in. Image courtesy of USGS GloVis.

Geotiff & Photoshop, Part 4

March 25th, 2007 · 2 Comments

In Parts 1, 2, and 3 of this series — we discussed how software and utilities specific to working with geospatial imagery allow us to work-around the incompatibilities with popular image editors that do not support geospatial formats. However, there is a unique plugin that’s been designed for Adobe® Photoshop® to give users the ability […]

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Geotiff & Photoshop, Part 3

March 23rd, 2007 · No Comments

In Part 1 and Part 2 of this series, we explored the common use and options for a set of utilities to handle Geotiff metadata tags. This allowed us to be able to output and store that data in text format for later retrieval, so that we could then be able to install it into […]

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Geotiff & Photoshop, Part 2

March 18th, 2007 · 2 Comments

In the first tutorial, Geotiff & Photoshop, Part 1; we went through the steps of using the listgeo and geotifcp commandline utilities to dump the metadata of a Geotiff .tif file, and how to re-stuff the metadata contained within the output text file back into a .tif image saved out of Photoshop®. But what if […]

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Geotiff & Photoshop, Part 1

March 16th, 2007 · 8 Comments

The Geotiff (or GeoTIFF) format, is a TIFF image that has special geospatial metadata tags in the header. Unfortunately, most industry standard image processing, manipulation programs and readers do not natively support geospatial metadata in TIFF images. Such examples are Photoshop®, and other similar programs. What can we do then in order to work with […]

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