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The OPEN AS does not work in my Photoshop Elements 6.0
Just downloaded and installed a "trial" copy of Photoshop Elements
6.0 . Much to my disappointment the OPEN AS does not work; and, of couse, the Adobe Help Documentation is nearly worthless. If I try to open a jpg (created in CS2) as a PSD file, I get the error msg that it is not a Photoshop Document. When I try to open a jpg as a Photoshop RAW, I get a message block on the screen entitled Describing [File Name], with blank image height and width and number of channels equal 1. Apparently, the OPEN AS cannot decipher the image data from the image file. From things that I have read, the OPEN AS should immediately convert the image and I should not be getting any messages. From my preliminary tests, I have not found any files that do not open correctly as themselves (jpg to jpg, raw to raw, psd to psd). Thanks in advance for any thoughts. |
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The OPEN AS does not work in my Photoshop Elements 6.0
On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 13:38:00 -0800 (PST), JOHNCHAP2
wrote: Just downloaded and installed a "trial" copy of Photoshop Elements 6.0 . Much to my disappointment the OPEN AS does not work; and, of couse, the Adobe Help Documentation is nearly worthless. If I try to open a jpg (created in CS2) as a PSD file, I get the error msg that it is not a Photoshop Document. When I try to open a jpg as a Photoshop RAW, I get a message block on the screen entitled Describing [File Name], with blank image height and width and number of channels equal 1. Apparently, the OPEN AS cannot decipher the image data from the image file. From things that I have read, the OPEN AS should immediately convert the image and I should not be getting any messages. From my preliminary tests, I have not found any files that do not open correctly as themselves (jpg to jpg, raw to raw, psd to psd). Thanks in advance for any thoughts. I think you have misunderderstood the purpose of "Open As...". It isn't magic, it's just a way to tell PS to ignore the assumed file type implied by the file extension and/or MIME and "just do it". As a trivial example you could rename a JPEG file by changing its extension to (say) .txt, then select the resultant "text" file (which you know is in reality a JPEG) and tell PS to open it as a JPEG. -- John Bean |
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The OPEN AS does not work in my Photoshop Elements 6.0
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, JOHNCHAP2 wrote: Just downloaded and installed a "trial" copy of Photoshop Elements 6.0 . Much to my disappointment the OPEN AS does not work; and, of couse, the Adobe Help Documentation is nearly worthless. If I try to open a jpg (created in CS2) as a PSD file, I get the error msg that it is not a Photoshop Document. that sounds like it's working properly. you can't simply take a jpeg file and open it as a totally different format. it's a jpeg, not a psd document. if you want to convert a file from jpeg to psd (or any other combination), open the file normally, then do a save as... and select the desired format. When I try to open a jpg as a Photoshop RAW, I get a message block on the screen entitled Describing [File Name], with blank image height and width and number of channels equal 1. that also sounds like it's working properly. photoshop raw is nothing more than directly reading the raw data (not to be confused with camera raw). you need to tell it the width and height and other pertinent information so it can interpret the image data. Apparently, the OPEN AS cannot decipher the image data from the image file. From things that I have read, the OPEN AS should immediately convert the image and I should not be getting any messages. what did you read that said that? it doesn't convert anything. if the file type is unknown, you can force it to be what you think it is, but if it's something else, it won't work at all. From my preliminary tests, I have not found any files that do not open correctly as themselves (jpg to jpg, raw to raw, psd to psd). that sounds right. |
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The OPEN AS does not work in my Photoshop Elements 6.0
"John Bean" wrote in message ... On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 13:38:00 -0800 (PST), JOHNCHAP2 wrote: Just downloaded and installed a "trial" copy of Photoshop Elements 6.0 . Much to my disappointment the OPEN AS does not work; and, of couse, the Adobe Help Documentation is nearly worthless. If I try to open a jpg (created in CS2) as a PSD file, I get the error msg that it is not a Photoshop Document. When I try to open a jpg as a Photoshop RAW, I get a message block on the screen entitled Describing [File Name], with blank image height and width and number of channels equal 1. Apparently, the OPEN AS cannot decipher the image data from the image file. From things that I have read, the OPEN AS should immediately convert the image and I should not be getting any messages. From my preliminary tests, I have not found any files that do not open correctly as themselves (jpg to jpg, raw to raw, psd to psd). Thanks in advance for any thoughts. I think you have misunderderstood the purpose of "Open As...". It isn't magic, it's just a way to tell PS to ignore the assumed file type implied by the file extension and/or MIME and "just do it". As a trivial example you could rename a JPEG file by changing its extension to (say) .txt, then select the resultant "text" file (which you know is in reality a JPEG) and tell PS to open it as a JPEG. Ah, is that what he meant? I was totally confused - never seen that before! |
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