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[coachjohn]

I'm a photographer who occasionally creates very large files for printing onto canvas. I recently sized and saved a TIF file in Photoshop CS2 for a 32" X 22" canvas print; it looks fine in Photoshop, I can open it in Photoshop after saving, but the thumbnail preview generated by Vista can't display the image..just a gray rectangle with a black bar on one side. The file is big..over 550 mb..is there a file size limit / threshold in vista for how big the original file can be when generating the thumbnail? Or maybe the thumbnail generated is too large and can't be displayed?

 

[CEpeep]

I'm a photographer who occasionally creates very large files for printing onto canvas. I recently sized and saved a TIF file in Photoshop CS2 for a 32" X 22" canvas print; it looks fine in Photoshop, I can open it in Photoshop after saving, but the thumbnail preview generated by Vista can't display the image..just a gray rectangle with a black bar on one side. The file is big..over 550 mb..is there a file size limit / threshold in vista for how big the original file can be when generating the thumbnail? Or maybe the thumbnail generated is too large and can't be displayed?

Probably. I remember XP having a specific size (dimension-wise, I believe) after which it wouldn't generate a thumbnail for the image.

 

[Grentz]

There is a limit. Can't remember off hand what it is either.

It just would take too much power to compute that thumbnail!

 

[coachjohn]

If anyone knows what the file size limit is..I'd appreciate passing the link along to me.

Thanks for the answers!