Visualizing numeric code of a photoshop file

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Patrick_McQuade
Nov 4, 2003
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Is it possible to view the numeric code or ascii code of a Photoshop 7 image file? If so, how does one go about this? Thank you in advance.

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YrbkMgr
Nov 4, 2003
Do you mean, like, opening it in a text editor?
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LenHewitt
Nov 4, 2003
Save it as an EPS with ASCII encoding – then open in a text-only editor
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hot_denim
Nov 4, 2003
Saving as EPS would not make it a Photoshop file then. it would be postcript language.

File Editors of anykind are a solution. Set file view to binary mode gives more exact representation.

Why would you require this ?..
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dave_milbut
Nov 4, 2003
Why would you require this ?..

someone’s gotta crack cs!

<KIDDING!!!>
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LenHewitt
Nov 4, 2003
not make it a Photoshop file <<

He didn’t ask for a way to view .PSD files, merely Photoshop image files….to my mind that encompasses all formats that Photoshop handles…
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Alex Duchateau
Nov 5, 2003
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not make it a Photoshop file <<

He didn’t ask for a way to view .PSD files, merely Photoshop image files….to my mind that encompasses all formats that Photoshop handles…
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Patrick_McQuade
Nov 6, 2003
Thanks Len Hewitt,

I have saved a photoshop file as an EPS in ascii format and opened it in Notepad. Seems to have done the trick.

I don’t wish to crack any codes. I am working on a series of collages and displaying the numeric code fits in nicely with the underlying concept of the work.

Thanks

Patrick McQuade
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LenHewitt
Nov 6, 2003
You’re very welcome, Patrick
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dave_milbut
Nov 6, 2003
novel idea. good luck Patrick.
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hot_denim
Nov 6, 2003
If that is the purpose, may I suggest a more appropriater .XPM from unix platform (some windows software may hadnle it…e.g. ?compuview compushow? ) It is text representation like postcript, but the actual file contents is a C language (programmign language) data structure. A person looking at the code can immeadiatly see the pallete colour entries and also the pixel representation. Postcript on the other hand is from ?printer origin? and is more of a language not a data representation.

Search the internet for .XPM file format examples. Open in text viewer. Try some with a small number of pallete colours so that the pallete an also code can be seen on same page.

(another choice is image dimentions and then Raw RGB values. Either find the format that closely represents this form or just create it yourself in text editor with random pixel values….)

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