Re: filmscanners: Cannot open scanned TIFF in Photoshop

[Stephen Jennings <sgjennin@ix.netcom.com>]

Hope this isn't too simple a suggestion.  I discovered that PS won't open
files without the .tif extension.

STEPHEN    JENNINGS
    P h o t o g r a p h e r
       Cambridge, MA
sgjennin@ix.netcom.com

> I finally got an SS4000 and (after some SCSI trouble) did the first scan.
> For the life of me, I cannot get the TIFF saved by Insight to open in
> Photoshop.
> 
> The file is 108MB big. I have 1GB of RAM. Photoshop 5.5 can use 75%, which
> amounts to 690M. I have two scratch disks defined, one has 4GB free, the
> other has 55GB free (and that space is defragmented and really unused.) My
> windows swap file is 2.5GB large. I still get the error 'Could not open the
> document because there is not enough memory (RAM).'
> 
> An image scanned at 3000dpi (62MB) would not open, either. One scanned at
> 2000dpi (27M)opens. PS tells me that this file uses scr: 41M/690M. And: I
> can open 4 copies of this 27MB file (amounting to 108MB) without error
> message. This just does not make sense!
> 
> I even trashed photoshop.ini and the prefs file - no change.
> 
> Does anyone have an idea what either I am doing wrong or what's wrong with
> photoshop? Or what's wrong with Insight? (Version 5.0.3, just downloaded).
> 
> Best regards, Barbara
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