TIF won't open in Registax, what do?

[JB80]

I'm trying to open a TIF in Registax and I keep getting an 'Access Violation' error come up. I have read that it has trouble with dslr images but is there any solution?

I can save it as another format like jpeg in photoshop I guess if I absolutely had to but that kind of defeats the purpose.

[virtualpilot45]

If it's from DSS I know its 32bit TIFFs aren't very popular with a lot of programs. 16bit pics tend to work better.

[MisterBill]

Don't use jpg. It uses compression and you will loose lots of data. Open the file in PS and do a save as under a new name. Then try and load the new name file in Regitax.

[JB80]

No, I didn't use a jpeg in the end and went for a 16bit .png. Not entirely sure if it was the right choice though. The file was originally a single raw image from the dslr opened in PS and saved as a tif from there. But I tried both 5.1 and 6 and it was a no go, I did download avistack and it opened in there but I'm used to regi.

[Dave Smith]

I have just opened a CR2 file in PS Elements (My CS2 doesn't recognise them) and saved it as an uncompressed tif which then opened ok in both Registax 5 & 6. Did you have any form of compression when saving the tif? That may be the problem.

Dave

[JB80]

I checked the 'none' option for compression so I don't think that's the problem. I just tried using GIMP and it changed it from 16 bit to 8 bit so Gimp could read it and then I saved it but registax still wouldn't load it.

[JB80]

Sorry to bring this up again but I have had the same thing happen but this time a tif wouldn't open in photoshop. The warning box said "Could not open because not enough RAM". I never did find a solution to the registax problem either and it's odd because everything worked fine before.

Any ideas?

Is it just that I don't have enough space and should delete a heap of things?

[Carl M]

It's basically saying that your computer won't be able to handle the .tif if photoshop were to open it. Close anything that is using up a lot of RAM and try again

[JB80]

Hmm, I don't have anything running apart from my browser and I just closed that and it still wouldn't work. I'll run a virus scan and check right now I think.

[Psychobilly]

How much disk space do you have free and how do you have the scratch files setup?

[JB80]

496gb free out of 684gb on my c drive, so that seems to not be the issue.

I don't know what scratch files are to be honest so I don't know how they're set up.

[Psychobilly]

Is the drive is setup as just the one partition?

Scratch files....

In Photoshop Edit -> Preferences -> Performance

Have a look at the Ram Usage and Scratch settings...

Peter...

[JB80]

Sorry about the delay, the kids went mental for a bit.

The hard disk has C: D: and E:. D: has 2.5 GB free from 14.3GB and has one file inside called recovery and E: is empty all together. It's just the way the PC came I haven't changed it.

In PS it says......

available RAM is 5322MB

ideal range 2392-3832MB

let PS use 3193MB (60%)

And the box for the C: drive is the only one checked for the scratch files.

My virus scan came back with a load of tracking cookies that I got rid of but nothing else.

[Psychobilly]

Id the HDD going crazy when you try and open an image... have you defragged the HDD lately?

When I set up a machine I ideally use partitions on different physical drives for windows swap and PS temp files.

If it's only a single drive then I create seperate smallish partitions for windows swap (pagefiles) and temp files... and use a fixed windows pagefile...

[JB80]

Not much is happening I just get the error messages pop up pretty quickly, I haven't defragged it at all so I'll give that a go today.

I could probably create seperate partitions too I guess if it will help. I'm willing to try anything.

edit: Just checked Defragg is scheduled every Wedensday, but I'm doing one now.

[Psychobilly]

it's mre of a house keeping measure thats all... not saying it will fix your problem