Larry suggested and Maris wrote
> It's a stumper. Have you tried opening the file in any other graphics
> program? Try Irfanview - freeware ( worth getting anyway) at
>
I downloaded Irfanview, installed it and voila - it opens the file with no
problem. I saved as a TIFF getting a file size of 57MB (apparently IrfanView
can only write 8bit TIFFs), and that opened in Photoshop, too. So this is
not really a problem with the file being too big. (I was not sure as before
I had only opened TIFs in the 20MB range).
This has the look of PS getting hung up on the TIF produced by Insight - if
that TIF is larger than 42MB. To me this smells of either a storage overlay
(if such a thing is possible on NT) or of a number indicating an impossible
value that is not validated by the software.
Someone suggested to trash the plugins for photoshop - but there are too
many (all with install date of 2 years back) for me to just rename that
folder. I guess I'm off to re-installing Photoshop - the second most popular
advise in the Adobe knowledge base, right after trashing the Prefs file. :-(
Mike Duncan asked:
> Do you have enough RAM allocated to PS? It probably needs 130MB to open
a
> file that expands to 110MB. This means your computer should have at least
> 140MB of RAM.
My computer has 1GB RAM, about 700MB usable for Photoshop.
Barbara
