Locked images

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edjh
Sep 1, 2003
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The Benedict’s wrote:
No not commercial ones! When I open a photo in PS7 It is locked. I usuall copy the layer and the delete the locked on. Once in a while though, the image is locked and no buttons are active in the layer box. Any ideas on how to stop this from happening?
Make sure your image is not 16 bit mode or Indexed mode. You can "unlock" by Ctrl-clicking or Ctrl-Alt-clicking on the Background in the Layers palette.

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thebenedicts
Sep 1, 2003
Thanks for the answer. Leads to a another just for my edification… why does being in 16 bit mode in RGB lock the image?
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n8 skow
Sep 5, 2003
Because many of the tools/filters will only work in 8bits per channel mode. Rumour is Photoshop8 will have better support for 16bits per channel images (though there’s no definition of what ‘better’ is…)

n8

Thanks for the answer. Leads to a another just for my edification… why does being in 16 bit mode in RGB lock the image?
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Andre_Delgalvis
Aug 10, 2004
I’m sure this is a really dumb question, but here it goes. I converted some raw files into tiff pc format and burned them on a cd. The client using a pc couldn’t open them. I retrieved the cd , went to PS browser Automate and created a web gallery. Went to DreamWeaver and it previewed just fine. Tried to "put" and got a message about a permissions issue.

I looked more closely at the cd files and saw that all of the images had a padlock icon on them. My guess is that that is what the permissions issue is all about. I don’t have a clue as to what I did to create the "Padlocks" but, can anyone tell me how to unlock these images?

Thanks,

Andre
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Buko
Aug 10, 2004
They are locked because they are on the CD.

you can’t save to a CD so they are locked.

If you must save the file copy it to your Hard drive.
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Ram
Aug 10, 2004
What Buko says. Anything on a CD will always have a padlock and be locked.

If you are opening files from a CD, over a network or saving them to a network server, cease and desist immediately. That’s a BIG no-no.

See:

Buko "Issues When Working from Networks or Removable Media" 3/23/03 11:02am </cgi-bin/webx?14/0>

and:

<http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/19dd2.htm?code=TA>

Copy the CLOSED file from the CD or your server to your local HD, work on it, save it again to your HD, close it, and copy the closed file back to the server, or burn another CD.
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jonf
Aug 10, 2004
If your client couldn’t open them, maybe the files lacked the necessary .tif file extension? Or the file names were too long and were truncated in the transfer process?

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