Can’t Open PSD files in Photoshop! What’s happening?

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corolla315
May 18, 2008
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Hi guys,

Can someone pls tell me why when I open a PSD file in Photoshop CS2 or CS3 , the psd file apparently seems to be opened but in reality nothing happens as I only get a blank image in Photoshop? In other words, it’s like the file has not been opened at all as I only get the usual very small grey and white boxes in Photoshop although at the same time the psd filename and other data associated with the file can be seen on Photoshop’s interface as if the file has been loaded normally when in fact it’s far from it?!!!…

Am I doing something wrong?

Just to let you know this happens after I tried to open a downloaded file from the Internet but it happens all the time when I try these kind of files in photoshop.

Pls help

Thanks in advance for your help..

Corolla…
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John Joslin
May 18, 2008
What are you seeing in the layers palette when you open such a file?

Where are you getting these PSD files? They may be protected.
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Phosphor
May 18, 2008
If you create a file and save it as a psd and close it can it then be opened?

If so I would suspect what you downloaded is not what you thought it was. Are the file sizes suspiciously small?

Have you tried trashing/resetting Preferences as per the FAQs?
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corolla315
May 18, 2008
Hello guys,

Thanks for your replies first of all.

To answer your questions John, please refer to the Print Screen in this link: <http://i32.tinypic.com/2vhzvvm.jpg>

I highlighted in yellow the most important things related to this topic in the pic, also referred to in my previous email.

I got the psd file from a public filehosting site and many users thanked the uploader for his great upload; thus I must have something wrong or I’m doing it wrong as the others seem not to have this prob!!!

As regards Ed’s question, no indeed, I don’t have any problems if I create a psd file myself closes it and opens it whenever I want.
And the filesizes are not at all small as the ones I’m talking about and which I’m having the problems with are sized from 20MB to 32MB.

Reference to your last question Ed, no I haven’t tried to trash/reset preferences as per the FAQ as I have only been using Photoshop very recently.

Thanks in advance.

Corolla

Seems like strange I don’t know.
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Bob Levine
May 18, 2008
Your layers are all set to invisible. Click the small blank box on the left side of each layer in the layers panel to turn them back on.

Bob
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Phosphor
May 18, 2008
One thing I noticed right away is that visibility is turned off on all layers. That would certainly do it. Click on the little boxes next to the Layer names in the Layers palette. But what kind of content is supposed to be in there?
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John Joslin
May 18, 2008
Is there an echo in here?
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Bob Levine
May 18, 2008
Is there an echo in here?

Nobody reads post four. 🙂

Bob
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ID._Awe
May 18, 2008
1,3,56,79,2,23,……….
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corolla315
May 18, 2008
Hi guys,

Many many thanks to Bob & Ed – yes indeed your solution did solve my problem…I told you I’ve been using Photoshop very recently but thanks to you I will keep using it now:-)

Thanks for your help.

Regards,

Corolla

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