PSD created in Photoshop 7 - now will not open

[shawn]

Greetings,

I created a first draft for a clients website in Photoshop 7 - then used Illustrator to slice it up and make a few finishing touches. I saved the file as a PSD file, however , when I go to open it in Photoshop it tells me it is the incorrect version for Photoshop 7.

My thought is the file is corrupt and we need to start all over again, however, I am hoping someone here as a solution!

Shawn

[korkus2000]

I am not sure why you used illustrator. Have you tried saving it as an EPS out of illustrator?

[shawn]

I am sorry.. I meant Image Ready not Illustrator. I actaully have illustrator 10 and that wont open it the file either.

Image ready tells it is a unknown file format. Illustrator wont open it unless I flatten all the layers etc...which I tried and it opens to a grey page.

I am begining to think its lost and I am going to be redoing it tonight!

Shawn

[mivox]

Sounds like the file may have gotten corrupted somehow. Have you tried opening it with any other programs?

[shawn]

I have only used Photoshop, Illustrator, and Image ready to try and open it - none of which have worked :(

[mivox]

Do you have a shareware image utility (Graphic Converter for Mac or Irfanview for Windows are what I always see recommended) that might do it?

I've had files that wouldn't open in Photoshop, where I kept getting corrupt file errors, and Graphic Converter opened them up, leaving just a grey band of corrupted data at the top or bottom of the image. Most of them could be cropped and saved.

But if the layers in the image file are really important, you may be best off just re-doing it. (Ouch. I hate saying that.)

[shawn]

mivox
Thanks for your reply - I needed to change some text on some different layers that the client wanted re-worded. I just went ahead and did it over(sigh). That was a fun 3 hours of my Sunday evening!

This is the first time photshop has ever done this to me - this was a first draft do there was considerably less to redo than if it had done it to me after the project was complete.

Shawn