Opening a 1gig+ tif file?

Hello! I recently received a tif file which is 1.2GB in size and am having trouble opening it. Photoshop gives me an "unable to parse" message and graphic converter crashes. Any ideas? Thanks, Tom

What version of Photoshop do you have. Older versions were more limited as to the size of the image.
Assuming an 8 bit image, this sounds like a 7000 x 7000 pixel image. That is pretty big!
You might try asking on the aperture list, or even the Adobe Photoshop forum, there are folks there with more experience opening files this large.

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