May 15, 2006

Photoshop Documents Won't Open

If you're like me and still using an older version of Photoshop (in my case v7), because the new versions are just fluff or for some other reason, you might come across this: "Could not open 'filename-goes-here.psd' because it's not a valid Photoshop document".

Turns out that the problem is there's some random characters, about 128 of them, before the 8BPS token that identifies the file as a valid Photoshop document. If you delete these extra characters in either a Hex Editor, or a text editor that supports binary files (e.g. EditPlus) so the first four characters are 8BPS, the document will open fine.

Great hall locations: Computing  |  Talked about by: 2 Fraggles