Can't load 300MB TIFF image anywhere!

[Chaotic42]

I've got a 21600x21600 TIFF image that Photoshop 5, GIMP 1.2, and xloadimage all refuse to mess with.

They all complain that it's too big! Any advice? I'd prefer just doing it in Debian and using the GIMP, but I'll take any of them.

Thanks!

 

[sechs]

Buy Photoshop 7?

On what platform was the TIFF created? Is it compressed?

Why on earth do you have such a big picture??

 

[sxr7171]

Is there either a monitor or printer on this planet that can resolve that resolution? I'm not trying to be sarcastic - I'm just wondering. I'd think that a printer is more likely than a monitor.

 

[Chaotic42]

They're giant pics of the earth.

 

[gsaldivar]

Increase Photoshop's RAM allocation in the Preferences dialog.

Make sure you have setup some scratch disk space in the Preferences also.

If you are still unable to open the files, you will need to beg/buy/borrow some more RAM... 🙂

hope this helps..

 

[sxr7171]

You might also need to increase the size of your swapfile. I don't know if this will help you, but I used to run a simulation program that used 700-800MB datasets and it required either enough RAM to hold that dataset or a swapfile set to be large enough to fit it.

 

[RalfHutter]

Are those the 2 giant (western and eastern hemispheres) maps from NASA? I have a gig of DDR400 RAM in my box (just for this type of thing) and it still took about 2 minutes to open these. It looked like a slow 56K webpage image loading. CPU was pegged too.

It's not worth it anyway. There's a 60MB, one piece version of that same map floating around in ".psd" format for Photoshop. I'd try and find that one if I was you.

 

[josphII]

i have photoshop and i can open the file your referring too. to open it i had to put the location of the scratch disk on a partition that had a lot of free space though. i kept getting a "scratch disk full" error

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

i had one of those pictures, it was about 300MB. i opened it just fine with the gimp running under debian on a p233 (!) with 256MB ram and a 1 GB swap partition.

 

[Chaotic42]

Originally posted by: BingBongWongFooey
i had one of those pictures, it was about 300MB. i opened it just fine with the gimp running under debian on a p233 (!) with 256MB ram and a 1 GB swap partition.

GIMP just chokes. Maybe it's because I'm running Debian Testing. Hmmm.....

I have 768MB of memory, btw.

 

[spyordie007]

I also have copies of these NASA TIFF images, and have not had any problems opening them with Photoshop 6 or 7 (I was running 6 when I got them). Although to be honest the least amout of RAM I've ever had and used them under is 384MB.

If Photoshop 5 still refuses to open it when you give it more scratchdisk space Adobe has a 30 day trial of Photoshop 7 available for download from Adobe's website.

-Spy