Saturday, September 4, 2010

Interesting Glitch Between Photoshop CS 3 and Network Printer Drivers

I use Dreamweaver far more than Photoshop. Beyond resizing and/or optimizing the occasional graphic for websites, the rest of my job doesn't require much image editing.  I'm a developer, not a designer-- or at least, that is how it was until recently.  This week, I found myself faced with converting a design comp into a bare bones Dreamweaver template and ran face-first into a glitch with Photoshop CS 3 for Windows.

Resizing or optimizing a single graphic for a page usually means I have only one file open at a time. But the workflow for slicing up a reference graphic into regions of a webpage is different; you'll probably select and copy a piece (e.g. the header, the footer, the sidebar, etc.) and create a new, separate file for each segment.  You can imagine my surprise when I create a new/second image, and Photoshop crashes completely with this cryptic error message: The instruction at "0x7c91b21a" referenced memory at "0x00000010." The memory could not be "written."