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Compress TIFFs on zbrush export?

ZBrush Usage Questions
#1

Hello is there any option how to set to compress (lossless- LZW compresion type) Tiff generated in zbrush (normal maps, displacement maps etc.) on export? So far when i export Tiffs they do not have any size saving lossless compresion and for example normal map in 8192*8192 px in tiff exported from zbrush has 192 MB (aprox.), i have to take it to photoshop and resave it using the lzw lossless compresion to get it down to for example only 12 MB. I have a lot of textures and resaving them in photoshop to save size is tedious.

Is there a way how to set up zbrush so he exports the tiff using the lzw compresion defaulty?

#2

No, there isn’t, I’m afraid.

#3

Depending on what version of Photoshop you’re using, it should be simple to record a photoshop action to do this in one click to batch process the tiffs.

#4

No want to do it in zbrush, that was the original question, so it seems that this is not possible, right? thats sad :-(, almost all apps allow you to choose settings for each picture format you export. Zbrush is i think great tool, im sorry to hear that it doesnt have such feture, maybe in next release :-).