Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/09/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Ben, I am not a Photoshop guru, but I routinely make panoramas far bigger than 200 MB on a computer with similar specs to yours (except that it is a Mac), also using PS CS3. I am not sure what you mean by "9x25 inches", surely your monitor is not that big?? Better talk in terms of pixel dimensions. Anyway, my workflow is: import the DNG files to Lightroom, do any spotting needed, export as full-size TIFFs, then merge those in CS3 using Photomerge. Then flatten and crop as needed. So the only difference seems to be that I work on TIFF files in Photoshop while you are working with DNG files--I wonder if that can account for the problem? Certainly, I have never experienced any problem with cropping as you describe. Nathan Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu http://www.greatpix.eu http://www.nathanfoto.com Books: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/search?search=wajsman&x=0&y=0 PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog On Sep 30, 2009, at 3:57 AM, Benjamin Marks wrote: > To any LUG Photoshop gurus: > > I am running Cs3 on a Windows XP machine with 4 GB RAM and a 1 TB > scratch drive. Memory allocation in CS3 is set to max. I am > experimenting with using Bridge/Photoshop photo merge function to > stitch 16-bit converted .dng files into long panoramas (9x25 > inches/200 MB when layers are flattened = pretty typical). So these > are whopping big files. Here's the question: > > I seem to be having trouble with the crop tool. I can't drag it the > length of the image -- it sort of stops 2/3 of the way across the > frame. It is as if it has a limitation on the width of the crop. > What's up? I can use the canvas size tool to roughly get where I want > to go, but I don't understand the dynamic in Photoshop. No other > images are open. > > Any ideas? > > Ben Marks > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information