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I have run into a problem while working on an image. When I look at Image>Mode, all of the bit depths are dimmed out: 8 bit, 16 bit, 32 bit are all dimmed. There is a check next to 16 bit, but the check is also dimmed.
When I use Image Duplicate (Duplicate Merged Layers Only), under Image>Mode, the duplicated image is shown to be 32 bit, with 8 and 16 bit dimmed.
All of this is unexpected. The image was initially 16-bit. I do not know when the strangeness occurred as I was working on the document. I can only guess that it may have somehow happened when I deviated from my normal workflow by using Edit > Convert to Profile to convert from one RGB profile to another (I now wish that I had done that on a duplicate, of course).
Prompt advice will be greatly appreciated. I am trying to avoid losing all the work that I put into this image, and to prevent this from recurring if I have to start over.
System details follow.
David Gilmour
Lumacraft Photography
Adobe Photoshop Version: 9.0.2 (9.0.2×296)
Operating System: Windows XP
Version: 5.1 Service Pack 2
System architecture: AMD CPU Family:15, Model:4, Stepping:8 with MMX, SSE Integer, SSE FP, SSE2 Physical processor count: 1
Processor speed: 2202 MHz
Built-in memory: 3071 MB
Free memory: 883 MB
Memory available to Photoshop: 1746 MB
Memory used by Photoshop: 55 %
Image cache levels: 4
Application folder: E:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS2\ Temporary file path: C:\DOCUME~1\David\LOCALS~1\Temp\
Photoshop scratch has async I/O enabled
Scratch volume(s):
H:\, 279.5G, 10.8G free
E:\, 48.8G, 11.9G free
F:\, 88.2G, 6.54G free
G:\, 88.7G, 4.27G free
Graphics chipset: NVIDIA GeForce FX5200
ForceWare version: 84.21
When I use Image Duplicate (Duplicate Merged Layers Only), under Image>Mode, the duplicated image is shown to be 32 bit, with 8 and 16 bit dimmed.
All of this is unexpected. The image was initially 16-bit. I do not know when the strangeness occurred as I was working on the document. I can only guess that it may have somehow happened when I deviated from my normal workflow by using Edit > Convert to Profile to convert from one RGB profile to another (I now wish that I had done that on a duplicate, of course).
Prompt advice will be greatly appreciated. I am trying to avoid losing all the work that I put into this image, and to prevent this from recurring if I have to start over.
System details follow.
David Gilmour
Lumacraft Photography
Adobe Photoshop Version: 9.0.2 (9.0.2×296)
Operating System: Windows XP
Version: 5.1 Service Pack 2
System architecture: AMD CPU Family:15, Model:4, Stepping:8 with MMX, SSE Integer, SSE FP, SSE2 Physical processor count: 1
Processor speed: 2202 MHz
Built-in memory: 3071 MB
Free memory: 883 MB
Memory available to Photoshop: 1746 MB
Memory used by Photoshop: 55 %
Image cache levels: 4
Application folder: E:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS2\ Temporary file path: C:\DOCUME~1\David\LOCALS~1\Temp\
Photoshop scratch has async I/O enabled
Scratch volume(s):
H:\, 279.5G, 10.8G free
E:\, 48.8G, 11.9G free
F:\, 88.2G, 6.54G free
G:\, 88.7G, 4.27G free
Graphics chipset: NVIDIA GeForce FX5200
ForceWare version: 84.21
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