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[Laura Miles]

Hi All, I'm having trouble exporting a raster from ArcGIS so I can do some colour corrections in Photoshop. For some reason, any .tif or .png files I export won't open (not in microsoft picture manager either). I've never really had this problem so I'm almost thinking it's a bug with ArcGIS 10? I've tried .jpg as well but ArcGIS seems to be having trouble converting my grid to that format.

[Adam Wilbert]

are you getting error messages like they're unreadable, or are the images opening all white or all black or something like that? How are you exporting the images? ie: File > Export Map or Right-clicking the layer > Export Data or some other method?

[pete.wells]

are you getting error messages like they're unreadable, or are the images opening all white or all black or something like that? How are you exporting the images? ie: File > Export Map or Right-clicking the layer > Export Data or some other method?

Not sure if this helps but I was in the same situation a year or so ago (needing to adjust the 'null' colour from black to fuchsia) and had to write a small script to strip out the 'geo' component of the geoTiff, edit the file (in gimp in my case), then re-embed the 'geo' component.

I seem to remember it was possible to script the whole process on stripping, adjusting levels/colours in gimp and then re-embedding.

Hope that helps.

[Laura Miles]

are you getting error messages like they're unreadable, or are the images opening all white or all black or something like that? How are you exporting the images? ie: File > Export Map or Right-clicking the layer > Export Data or some other method?

I did discover that Photoshop won't open a .jpeg larger than 40000 rows, so I resampled my raster and then it worked. But it still won't open .tif or .png, one .tif was a big black square. I've tried exporting in ArcCatalog by right-clicking on the raster, also using the "Copy Raster" tool.

[Laura Miles]

are you getting error messages like they're unreadable, or are the images opening all white or all black or something like that? How are you exporting the images? ie: File > Export Map or Right-clicking the layer > Export Data or some other method?

Not sure if this helps but I was in the same situation a year or so ago (needing to adjust the 'null' colour from black to fuchsia) and had to write a small script to strip out the 'geo' component of the geoTiff, edit the file (in gimp in my case), then re-embed the 'geo' component.

I seem to remember it was possible to script the whole process on stripping, adjusting levels/colours in gimp and then re-embedding.

Hope that helps.

Oy, that sounds like a lot of work!

[Adam Wilbert]

I did discover that Photoshop won't open a .jpeg larger than 40000 rows, so I resampled my raster and then it worked. But it still won't open .tif or .png, one .tif was a big black square. I've tried exporting in ArcCatalog by right-clicking on the raster, also using the "Copy Raster" tool.

This sounds an awful lot like something that I run into with the 16bit grayscale images that Arc exports from DEMs and hillshades. . Take a look at this screencast I made and see if that's what you're getting too. The fix is at about the 5 minute mark if it's the same issue.

[Laura Miles]

I did discover that Photoshop won't open a .jpeg larger than 40000 rows, so I resampled my raster and then it worked. But it still won't open .tif or .png, one .tif was a big black square. I've tried exporting in ArcCatalog by right-clicking on the raster, also using the "Copy Raster" tool.

This sounds an awful lot like something that I run into with the 16bit grayscale images that Arc exports from DEMs and hillshades. . Take a look at this screencast I made and see if that's what you're getting too. The fix is at about the 5 minute mark if it's the same issue.

Thanks Adam, I'll take a look at the levels on the .tif. It's actually an aerial photo, rather than a dem or hillshade that I'm working with. I do recall seeing the black square issue when trying to work with those though. In the end I have one .tif that seems to open properly, plus the downsampled .jpeg. (I'm trying to colour match them before mosaicking).