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PhD: Errors Opening Adobe Photoshop *.PSD Files

Article ID: 197468

Article Last Modified on 11/5/2003

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SYMPTOMS

When you try to open a PhotoShop (.PSD) file in PhotoDraw, you may receive an error similar to the following.
The .PSD file cannot be read. The blend signature is invalid.

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The .PSD file cannot be read. The number of image channels exceeds the capacity allowed by PhotoDraw.

CAUSE

PhotoDraw can read PhotoShop (*.PSD) files up to version 4.0, but it cannot read version 5.0. The reason is that format changed slightly in version 5.0 but the changes were not published in time for Microsoft to include them in this version of PhotoDraw.

WORKAROUND

Save the file again in PhotoShop and choose PSD version 4.0 or earlier or some other file format that PhotoDraw can open.

MORE INFORMATION

PhotoShop PSD files are a bitmap format that supports layering. When a PSD file opens in PhotoDraw each layer becomes a separate object in PhotoDraw.

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