I'm having a very strange P'shop error.
I've nicked a news photo off the Web and I'm trying to insert someone's head into it. Whenever I try to use certain tools -- the eraser, say, or the stamp tool -- I get a "program error." And sometimes the program shuts itself down entirely. Hm. Okay. This is a new machine, so I started on the assumption that I had a dodgy installation.
But no. I tried reinstalling the application, I tried biffing my preferences folder. I have subsequently been able to create and edit a dozen other images without error, using the same techniques and the same machine. Also, I tried opening this image on someone else's machine, same error.
Okay, then. Corrupt image? I copied the layers and pasted them into the new image. Same error.
Hm. Well, this HAS to work: I put the image on screen and took a print screen of it and worked on the print screen. Nope! Same error.
Okay, that's getting kind of spooky. Now I'm working on the assumption that it's seeing something, some pattern of pixels, in the image that's setting it off. I tried to do a scan of a piece of currency once (for completely innocent reasons, I promise) and it pops up an error message, so it has some sort of template for allowable content. I would expect a different error message than "program error" but...well, whatever.
So the last thing I tried was flipping the entire image horizontally, blowing it up 200% taking a screen capture of this and working on the result. Yes, SAME ERROR! And yet, I'm working on lots of other images with no problem.
I'm going to give up now and snag a different photo, so I'm not hanging on for the answer. I just thought it was weird enough I had to ask. Because this is really freaking me out.
Suggestions? Anyone? |
