BirdForum is the net's largest birding community dedicated to wild birds and birding, and is absolutely FREE!

Register for an account to take part in lively discussions in the forum, post your pictures in the gallery and more.

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Barred Wobbler" data-source="post: 1319932" data-attributes="member: 69394">I tried opening a TIFF file in Photoshop 7 this evening and got the error message that it couldn't open the file because there was insufficient memory (RAM).The file in question was a scanned negative image of 55MB.My computer has 1200 meg of RAM and when I checked the preferences for PS7 it had 50% of this allocated to it. I tried moving the slider to 100%, giving available RAM of over 1100meg. Smaller files of 22Meg opened (as they had on the 50% setting), but the big 55 Meg files still gave trouble.Instead of the error message the file now appeared to open, but the image was  almost a completely flat grey, with only 1 or 2 tiny areas of strong colour such as yellow or red. It was as if the image wasn't fully opening. Mode setting showed RGB, 16 bit.  I've had these very same images open before without difficulty.The only difference that I can think of is that I had my RAM increased by half a gig to its current level since I last opened the files.What's going on?EDIT. To add to the confusion I tried opening the image with a stone-age copy of PS Elements 1 and it opened OK (in 8 Bit colour)!</blockquote>