Opening just a section of a very large image

[danielh68]

Hi,

Many years ago, I worked in a pre-press departement and occasional we would need to do this, but now I have forgotten. Anyhow, I have a large 600dpi image which requires work. I remember the ability to open specific sections of a large file to reduce CPU labor and memory. Can someone refresh my memory and tell me how it's done?


Thanks,
Dan

 

[SPYDERIX]

News to me - Although this may be possible in Quark or other progs like that, I'm about 95% sure you can't do this in photoshop (could be wrong though) I checked google and couldn't get anything on it.

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[danielh68]

Thanks Spiderix.

Perhaps it was a special plugin for PS. I just remember pre-flighting large jobs that this was an option. It would show a proxy of the overall image, the user marquees the area desired, clicks OK and only that portion of the file would open in PS.

Hmmm, if you come across anything, please let me know.

Thanks for your input. Much appreciated.

Dan

 

[SPYDERIX]

hmmmmmmmmmm- You sure you weren't using photoshop elements maybe? I have never used elements so that's just a wild guess.

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[danielh68]

It was awhile back ago. It may have been, but I'm pretty confident it was straight PS. I remember how frustrated I would get waiting for the large files to open and one day, my supervisor said "want to know a knifty trick" and then he did the steps I mentioned earlier. I used it ever since, while working there. It really stream-lined production.

Unfortunately, my memory eludes me. I've searched every possible option to no avail. Perhaps it was Elements and I just wasn't aware of it.

Thanks again for your advice.

Dan

 

[pixl8r]

Definitely not Elements. You can't do any prepress work with it. (doesn't even support CMYK)

I haven't heard of this either. :-(

Wow JT that almost looked like you knew what you were doing!