That’s certainly seems strange to me. I have used Photoshop 7.0 and Photoshop CS, and in both of those versions I can specify type of compression or no compression when I save a tif image.
7.0.1 doesn’t change Windows behavior.
Think the fix means that PS File Browser can read LZW TIFF.
So, it’s a Windows thing, not a PS thing.
Mac
Actually, the 7.0.1 fix was for TIFF files written by Photoshop with LZW compression (in 7.0.0 they had one byte too many and that threw off some third party readers).
It shouldn’t affect thumbnails in the Explorer.
I guess it is a windows thing
thanks
See Chris’ post…seems should NOT be a Windows thing, assuming your LWZ’s were written with 7.01.
M
It can still be a Windows thing if the Explorer won’t create thumbnails for LZW compressed TIFF. And I’m pretty sure it can’t handle ZIP compressed TIFF.
I do know that there is a problem with regards to layered TIFF-LZW files. Windows only shows the layer. I don’t know if it’s a problem with windows not knowing how to read the preview or if it’s PS8 saving the preview.
John Gregson
I agree that this may be a Windows thing, but there is some interaction with Photoshop nonetheless.
In my case is not so much the issue that Explorer does not show the thumbs but that Explorer crashes in folders w/ some TIFFs or PNGs. In PS CS, it crashes the program when saving a TIFF file to those folders – very annoying.
My experience is that this may be due to a recent XP upgrade patch. It has only been happening in my systems after I installed the upgrades 🙁
I urge Adobe to look into this (even if it is not a PS thing) to help PS users solve it.
Thanks!
The Explorer crashes are a Windows bug. The fix is to remove file associations from PS and restore to the default Windows associations.
The fix is to remove file associations from PS and restore to the default Windows associations.
Not entirely true. I did that and still crashed on occasion. I agree it is a Windows bug… but Adobe has a lot of pull w/ MS and I’m sure they can work it out.
Try renaming all instances of psicon.dll to psicon.old.
You won’t get thumbnails, but may solve the crashing.
Mac
Mick – that won’t solve the Windows bugs in dealing with some TIFF and PNG files.
No, we haven’t gotten them to do more than put it on the list of bugs to fix.