Crash!
iaian7 » blog John Einselen, 7.11.06I’m generally pretty good at abusing equipment (just intellectual abuse, not physically beating my computer), and I’ve certainly edited my fair share of massive photos. Yet somehow this hasn’t come up before…
(the image is a colour texture map of Rodinia, postulated to have been the super continent to precede Pangea, and the current star of a video I’m working on)
I double checked, and sure enough… the file I’d been working on (with such grievously slow processing speeds) had passed 1.75Gb of saved file space, before I’d started editing. Thankfully flattening part of it seemed to help and I was able to save it. Since I had a few original layers in another file, no edibility was really lost. Talking with Ben Wolken, this is an issue with Photoshop CS1 and previous; in CS2 the “large file format” was introduced.
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