raw files from Photoshop crashing WM

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#1

I know there is another thread about this here, but it is not photoshop specific.

I exported a 16bit raw file from WM and opened it in Photoshop. I then saved that 16 bit file from PS as a raw file, 0 header bytes, non-interleaved, pc byte order. I rename the extension to .r16 and try to import it into WM. WM instantly crashes. I also tried all of the other combinations (renaming it .r16 each time):

interleaved, pc byte order
non-interleaved, pc-byte order
interleaved, mac byte order
non-interleaved, mac byte order

all to no avail. It crashes each time.

Any ideas how I can get a 16 bit image out of PS and into WM? I tried using TerraConv but WM will not open the files it creates either (does not crash though).

Ben

#2

Is the raw file square or rectangular in shape?

Since RAW files have no header to specify size, and there is no other way to identify Width X Height dimensions from the file, WM assumes that the raw file is a square, the dimensions of which it deduces from the file size. I’ll do a bit of testing in a bit to see if this might induce a crash, but this is the first thing that came to mind.

#3

It should be square. Basically I am just reading in the r16 file from WM, painting a bit, and then trying to write it back out to a new r16 file.

I’m going to try some really basic files as a test to see if that works (making sure they are square).

bvz

#4

Is it perfectly save to just rename these files?

#5

After playing around a bit myself, a question for you: when you’re creating a 16bit raw mask in photoshop, are you working in Greyscale or RGB mode? WM can only import a 16bit greyscale RAW, not a RGB raw.

#6

Funny you should be on this topic right now, as I was just testing it. So far I have been able to import an image saved from PS as a raw. I suspect that it is as you wrote, that previously for some reason I did not have a grayscale image. At any rate, it seems to be working now…

Thanks
Ben

#9