Need help with Zoom Brower

Not sure what I am doing wrong. Once I edit a photo in Elements 10 and send back to file in ZB it take forever to load up. it seem like I am somehoe screwing up the file. Help greatly appreciated.

CHUCK A wrote in post #14670872
Not sure what I am doing wrong. Once I edit a photo in Elements 10 and send back to file in ZB it take forever to load up. it seem like I am somehoe screwing up the file. Help greatly appreciated.

What format of original file are you working on?

And, what format do you save the edited file as, jpeg or tiff?

I am working with raw file and than saving to psd. I tah convert and export in jpeg.

OK, I've been busy!

But, realize that a psd, like a tiff, is an uncompressed file, and even an 8 bit-per-channel will be significantly larger than not just a jpeg, which udergoes two types of compression, but also a Raw file, which does not have three color channels per pixel, but only one 14-bit "channel" per pixel.

So yes, a psd or a tiff is the best format to save for editing but yes it is bigger than either your original Raw or even a large fine jpeg, which does have some compression.

Try saving a copy as a TIFF file and compare the loading speed? I'd understood (maybe wrongly) that psd was a photoshop special, while TIFF's are more universal.

Zoombrowser supports *.psd?

tzalman wrote in post #14677673
Zoombrowser supports *.psd?

No. I opened a folder with .PSD files & 1 TIF file in ZB. The only thing ZB showed was the TIF file. I could not access the PSD files at all.

GilBean

CHUCK A wrote in post #14672657
I am working with raw file and than saving to psd. I tah convert and export in jpeg.

tzalman wrote in post #14677673
Zoombrowser supports *.psd?

Gil Bean wrote in post #14679933
No. I opened a folder with .PSD files & 1 TIF file in ZB. The only thing ZB showed was the TIF file. I could not access the PSD files at all.

GilBean

Good points -- ZoomBrowser can't read the psd files. And, if you open a folder with a mix of psd and jpegs, ZoomBrowser might "choke" a bit with the psds before showing the jpegs. And, the Canon software also seems to have a problem with tiffs that have been saved by PS. I'm not sure of the technical details there, but I've seen bad DPP behavior if trying to show thumbnails of tiffs that were created by PS.

Thank you for all of the responses. That is what is happening. I am saving in psd and ZB is getting choked. Takes forever to load up. I save in jpig and no problems.

CHUCK A wrote in post #14680618
Thank you for all of the responses. That is what is happening. I am saving in psd and ZB is getting choked. Takes forever to load up. I save in jpig and no problems.

ZB will work with TIF but they must be 8 Bit. If you have 16 bit, I think it will ask if you want to convert to 8 bit when you try to do anything (not sure on this) but am certain it will work with 8 bit TIF. Please do not use JPG. JPG is lossy = you lose pixels everytime you open/close/modify/save​. TIF is lossless.

GilBean