Help: .psd file problem

Hello,
I am currently trying to solve an issue I'm having currently with Cs5 in opening a canvas I was working on last night.
Today I tried to open the canvas and found my layers were completely gone. The only layer visable is the background
layer and it is solid black, with a strange red bar at the top.
I am not sure how to solve this problem, any help would be very helpful.
Thanks in advance!
-Matt

There seems to be several users with similar problems with psd saves. By any chance are you using CS5.5?
For now my advice would be to save psd in mulltiple stages, and as tiff also. Increases your odds of having a good file.

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Help, Invalid .psd file problem.

Hello, i will try to be clear with my problem:
For the past three days i have been working on a drawing in photoshop CS6.
I was working on it this morning and it went just fine. I save it and when i quite the program a message appeared saying Photoshop has stoped working.
The file was still in the place i saved it, everything seemed ok so i took a brake. A few hours later i tried to open it again and a message apeared saying Photoshop could not open the file because it is not a valid Photoshop file.
I have tried to open previous .psd files and they worked just fine. I fear that the file might be damaged, but i really hope i'm wrong.
If you have a solution i would be more than glad to hear it.
(I work with a Sony and Windows 8)

When working on even a mildly complex Image, I use a combo of Save, Save_As and Save_As_a_Copy, along the way. They have similarities, but also important differences.
After a complex bit of work, I will do the Save_As (keeping that a Layered PSD), and incrementing my file's name, then at the end of the day, do a Save_As_a_Copy, and often to another HDD. For intricate Images, I might end up with 30 versions, as I progress.
Along the way, I frequently use Save (Ctrl+S).
Good luck, and sorry about that file. I've sort of been there, as my computer had a major, systemic crash, while Saving a triple-truck pano HDR, with dozens of Layers. Fortunately, I only lost about 1 hour of work, because I had my Save_As. Took much longer to straighten out my poor computer.
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Cross-posted, to waste yours and my time...
http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jsp?thread=552805&forum=54&message=2704318

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Hmm not sure i have explained thinsg properly.
I am in lightroom
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How are you saving the metadata - automatically or manually?

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Hi all,
Did someone already know about 16 bits/channel multilayer psd file parsing is different to that of 8 bits/channel multilayer psd file?
as far as I try, it seems 8 bits/channel model, image data is saved in RLE model, but it is quite different in 16 bits/channel,
we could easily find out once we load those two file into memory (with same context, only model changed).
Anyone who know which algorithm may 16 bits/channel multilayer psd taken for saving the layer image data?
Many Thanks!
Jerry Yu

yes, 16 bit/channel can be ZIP/FLATE compressed. (RLE doesn't work well for anything beyond 8 bit/channel)
You can find the details in the Photoshop SDK (you'll have to ask specifically for the PSD documentation).

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An applet is not allowed to write files.
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PSD file problems

I cant seem to get photoshop files to appear correctly in Final Cut Pro. The edges are terribly pixellated. I've tried everything, the vertical motion blur in photoshop, de-interlace filter, flicker filter, and nothing is making an improvement on it.
Even exported as a quicktime movie doesnt make a difference.
I dont remember having a problem with photoshop files before, anyone got any ideas on where I have gone wrong?

The logo sort of flies down and rotates onto the screen so does reduce from 84% to 12% (under motion settings).
If I open the actual image into the viewer in FC it appears fine.
Should I be applying the image filters to the Photoshop Sequence (the one on the timeline) or by double clicking the photoshop file on the timeline and apply to the individual layer? I have never understood the difference.
Here is a better picture of what Final Cut is doing - its putting a black outline on the image edges.
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Motion 4 + layered PSD files = me banging my head against the wall

I posted this same question in the other M4/PSD file problem, but it was marked as answered (and the answer isn't working for me).
I'm having a similar problem, but changing the resolution to the exact max of 2896x2896 doesn't work for me...and neither does any smaller resolution for some reason.
Today, my layered PSD file is at least not experiencing the crazy tile-effect you included in your posted images, but it is now:
1) always converting the top layer of the PSD file to a flattened image of the whole file.
2) ignoring/mutating my alpha channel information, as areas that should be transparent and smoothly masked off are now opaque and/or blocky.
My images are large, but I need to keep them large for dollying in real closely when i fly a camera through the scene. This is not a problem in After Effects, but I also need to do a lot of these 2.5D animations and several need particle/replicator effects... and I just work much much faster in Motion than AE. I don't remember having this problem with Motion 3 at all, but I can't say I've done a scientific comparison (nor do I want to uninstall M4 for M3).
My system info can be found here:
[IMG]http://i36.tinypic.com/2n744di.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://i33.tinypic.com/28cks42.jpg[/IMG]
Original PSD file info:
[IMG]http://i37.tinypic.com/amdr9v.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://i36.tinypic.com/99kv1g.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://i33.tinypic.com/3355w8x.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://i37.tinypic.com/1zb6y3m.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://i35.tinypic.com/9i5rhz.jpg[/IMG]
Motion 4 info:
[IMG]http://i38.tinypic.com/es40v4.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://i37.tinypic.com/2crva83.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://i35.tinypic.com/2e3popz.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://i37.tinypic.com/jrv8tz.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://i37.tinypic.com/28rh6hs.jpg[/IMG]
Any help is appreciated!
Thank you!

I can't believe I didn't see that! I scanned them in 24-bit color but they are B&W images anyways, so I'm not sure why or how they ended up as 8-bit greyscale... maybe has something to do with the lousy HP dinosaur-of-a-scanner and it's weird proprietary HP interface (couldn't get it to interface with PS4 and don't use it enough to fuss with it).
Thanks!
I think that was about the quickest/least-frustrating help forum experience ever =)

Problem with Preview and PSD files - random gray square

Hi guys, hope you can help...
I've got a problem with Preview and PSD files.
If I open in Preview both an original jpg straight from my reflex and the photoshop version of the same picture, the psd file presents a gray square (of what it seems unrendered image) in a random area of the photo (sometimes in the center.). The square is quite big...
If I zoom in or zoom out it disappears...if I scroll to another photo and then back to the psd, the square it's there again...sometimes in a different position.
I've tried the same psd on my older iMac with leopard...and got no problem at all.
I suspect it got something to do with my Ati...
(this is the second iMac 27...the first went back for gray banding on the lcd screen and flickering and yellow tinge........)
Thanks for your help.
DAve.

maybe I'm onto something...
I've just found out that opening Preview in 32bit mode (instead of default 64bit) works flawlessly with any psd files. If I switch back to 64bit mode, Preview is much faster but the gray square comes back...
It seems like the i7 is much faster than the Ati....
Any more realistic ideas?

Photoshop saved a PSD file with security permissions, and now I can't access it. Please help!

Using Photoshop CC, I saved a PSD file after several hours of editing. I also exported a TIF file from the PSD. After closing Photoshop, I cannot access either file in any way. I cannot even copy them.
going to properties --> security, I get a message that reads, "You must have Read permissions to view the properties of this object." Click Advanced to continue.
When I click Advanced, it says "Unable to display current owner", and in none of the three tabs available (Permissions, Auditing, or Effective Access) can I click "Continue" and get any further than the message, "You do not have permission to view or edit this object's permission settings".
Please help me. This is highly frustrating, and a bug that is costing me over an hour of my time troubleshooting.
Thank you.
UPDATE:
I rebooted, and the files are... gone. Photoshop CC has no record of the file under "Open Recent".
What just happened? I lost a good 2 hours of work and a unique photograph
UPDATE2
I restarted the project, saved a PSD with Maximize Compatibility selected. Verified this file has appropriate permissions.
When I then go to File --> Save (not "Save as", but "Save"), after progressing to 90% or so, an error message comes up, "Could not save 'O:\[path]\file.PSD' because the file name was not valid."
I click "OK", and then go to the original file and check its permissions. They are now changed to "You must have read permissions".

I have this exact problem too. Windows 8.1 CC 2014 and all of a sudden I get the problems AIJ23 has. Say I have 8 files open, I save the first 3 or four, just with Control-S (saving in PSD format) no problem, then all of a sudden on the next save I get a message saying I don't have permission to save over the file followed by the same problems as above. I use Save As so I don't loose my work but I cannot delete/rename/change permissions of the original file. This only started happening about 2-3 days ago and only happens in Photoshop. I haven't managed to find much about this issue anywhere.

Importing a .psd file - getting weird effects with drop shadows!! HELP!

Hi all,
I'm trying to import a psd file as my site and then animate each page.
I have each page set up as a different layer and am importing each page as a movie clip so i can animate each one separately.
The problem is that i have some images on each page that have drop shadows ( i have flattened these in photoshop so there is no longer the blending options layers attached). When flash imports all the layers it obviously has all of them visible at the same time initially.
When i then go through and separate each page to show at different points in the timeline, the images with drop shadows are now showing the image that was underneath it on import, instead of the drop shadow. Difficult to explain, but if you imagine a page with a square in the middle. That square has a drop shadow along two edges which is a slight shading. On a different page (on the layer underneath) there is just a big image of the sea (could be anything). When i import them, the page with the square is sitting directly on top of the page with the image of the sea. I separate these in the timeline so they show at different points, but when it's just the page with the square showing (the page with the sea isn't showing at this point), instead of the nice shading for the drop shadow, in it's place is the thin part of the image of the sea that was initially under the shading for the drop shadow....
Can anyone suggest what is happening and why, and how to quickly fix it in Flash. It took me AGES to import the whole site and all the pages, but now all the movieclips are completely useless because all the drop shadows are messed up with the images that were importing underneath them???!
I'm in a real rush here too, so any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks.

How was the original art created? Was the original RGB or CMYK? What is the resolution of the Photoshop file? Flash only works well with RGB and 72 pixel per inch resolution. If your original art is not set this way, then Flash will attempt to convert it as it imports it. Flash uses the sRGB color space. You'll get the best color translation if your Photoshop file is using this color preference.

I am trying to save a photoshop CS6 psd file to jpg and get an option jpg, jpg2000 or jpg stereo, I choose jpg and then Mac 256 colours, normal or interlaced. I just want regular jpg with a high resolution. What am I doing wrong, never had this problem

I am trying to save a photoshop CS6 psd file to jpg and get an option jpg, jpg2000 or jpg stereo, I choose jpg and then Mac 256 colours, normal or interlaced. I just want regular jpg with a high resolution. What am I doing wrong? , never had this problem before. Help!!!

Your description of the issue is not clear:
What format, bit depth and color was your original file "from the net"? It sounds like it was a Color Indexed GIF, which would cause what you are describing.
In the Macintosh Finder, select said "net image" and do a Get Info on it (Command+i). When the Info box appears in the Finder, take a screen shot and upload it here by using the little camera icon in the Reply Editor in the forum's web interface.
If the image is a 256-color GIF, remember the rule: GIGO = garbage in, garbage out.

Problem placing PSD file in Illustrator

G'day,
My problem is when i place PSD file into illustrator, it opens up "Photoshop Import Option" menu,
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(1) convert photoshop layers to objects (or)
(2) Flatten photoshop layers to a single image
all other options are greyed out (meaning i cannot select them)
The above 2 options will embed the image into illustrator, thus when i update in photoshop, they will not auto update.
I dont have this problem in the past (which means i dont get this menu when i use the place function) but it just poped up the last week.
But when i open OLD illustrator files which have PSD images not embeded, i am able to edit the PSD and illustrator will auto update.
Please help it is really frustrating to keep placing PSD files everytime when i have changes.
Thanks!

Hi Steve,
May i know what is the place dialogue box are you referring to?
The Place dialogue box that i get (when i press file>place) is the image below:
As you can see i dont have any "link" button to check or uncheck. I can either flatten the psd or convert to object.
My Problem is I would really like to link back the psd file for easy updates but i am not able to.
Pls help thx!~

A problem with importing layered PSD file into Flash

Hi.
There's a problem with importing layered PSD file into Flash.
If I import a layered PSD file, some part the color of the lower layer is shown at the edge of objects or shadows. Instead, if I crop each layers first and import them, there's no problem.
If the higher layer has brush or transparent effects, it becomes worse.
Any help with this problem?
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How was the original art created? Was the original RGB or CMYK? What is the resolution of the Photoshop file? Flash only works well with RGB and 72 pixel per inch resolution. If your original art is not set this way, then Flash will attempt to convert it as it imports it. Flash uses the sRGB color space. You'll get the best color translation if your Photoshop file is using this color preference.

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