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re: Windows Photo Gallery Won't Open Large Files Tuesday, May 26, 2009 at 6:47 pm Posted by Steve (23811 messages posted) I download a lot of the NASA Photos, and XPs Image viewer can't handle the Big hi-Res photos either. I Rt Click on the Photos and Open them in Firefox. It makes a Good Image Viewer too, and I use the Mouse wheel to scroll through, and around the Image. Suppose IE would work the Same way. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Windows Photo Gallery Won't Open Large Files Tuesday, May 26, 2009 at 10:14 pm Posted by Jason D. (23 messages posted) So you suspect it's probably just a weird limitation of the application? On Tuesday, May 26, 2009 at 6:47 pm, Steve wrote: >I download a lot of the NASA Photos, and XPs Image viewer can't handle the Big hi-Res >photos either. I Rt Click on the Photos and Open them in Firefox. It makes a Good >Image Viewer too, and I use the Mouse wheel to scroll through, and around the Image. >Suppose IE would work the Same way. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Windows Photo Gallery Won't Open Large Files Wednesday, May 27, 2009 at 5:09 am Posted by Ricer46 (23825 messages posted) That's what I told you to start, but you didn't want to hear it. It's really not as weird as you suggest, all programs have some limits, and typically the "free" applets that come with the OS have significant limitations. My (not free) low end graphics app handles 10K x 10K pixels, but chokes on anything much higher. 30K x 30K takes up 2.5GB of memory when not compressed in the jpeg format, about 10X higher than 10K x 10K. Do you always react to information you don't want to hear with such venom? On Tuesday, May 26, 2009 at 10:14 pm, Jason D. wrote: >So you suspect it's probably just a weird limitation of the application? > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Windows Photo Gallery Won't Open Large Files Wednesday, May 27, 2009 at 6:52 am Posted by Steve (23811 messages posted) Try the popular and free IrfanView . I'm not familiar with MS Photo Gallery [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Windows Photo Gallery Won't Open Large Files Friday, May 29, 2009 at 8:52 pm Posted by Daniel Smith (47 messages posted) Vista Ultimate here, have had no issues with Photo Gallery and the pics on NASA. On Wednesday, May 27, 2009 at 6:52 am, Steve wrote: >Try the popular and free IrfanView . I'm not familiar with MS Photo Gallery [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Windows Photo Gallery Won't Open Large Files Saturday, May 30, 2009 at 7:27 am Posted by Ricer46 (23825 messages posted) As big as the OP mentioned? NASA provides lot's of pics that are much smaller than 20,000 x 20,000. On Friday, May 29, 2009 at 8:52 pm, Daniel Smith wrote: >Vista Ultimate here, have had no issues with Photo >Gallery and the pics on NASA. > > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Windows Photo Gallery Won't Open Large Files Monday, June 8, 2009 at 4:53 pm Posted by Jason D. (23 messages posted) Venom? Please. Just skepticism. I see no reason why an integrated 64-bit application on a 64-bit operating system with 8 gigs of RAM and a high-end workstation graphics card should have a problem with a relatively small image only 200+ MB in size. I had already gone ahead and installed IrfanView to get around the issue since I've used it commercially for viewing large tiff images of blueprints also in the 30,000px+ range. To me, the issue still stands, though. Whether or not the problem I'm having with the picture gallery app is a limitation of the program remains unanswered. My concern is, if other people aren't having the same problem with the the picture gallery and similarly-sized images, than that would indicate the program on my end has become broken or corrupted and I need to re-install it or Windows as a whole, because it may also be an indicator of other system problems, as it is an integrated system application. Without definitive specifications on the Photo Gallery application, and no indications anywhere I've looked on the web about it having inherent limitations regarding image and file size, I kind of have to assume that for some reason my particular application is not functioning properly and using a third party app is not a solution for the problem, only a work-around. On Wednesday, May 27, 2009 at 5:09 am, Ricer46 wrote: >That's what I told you to start, but you didn't want to hear it. It's really not >as weird as you suggest, all programs have some limits, and typically the "free" >applets that come with the OS have significant limitations. My (not free) low end >graphics app handles 10K x 10K pixels, but chokes on anything much higher. 30K x >30K takes up 2.5GB of memory when not compressed in the jpeg format, about 10X higher >than 10K x 10K. >Do you always react to information you don't want to hear with such venom? > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Windows Photo Gallery Won't Open Large Files Friday, June 26, 2009 at 12:38 pm Posted by Larry Lecuyer (1 messages posted) Jason: I am also experiencing apparent limitations with Photo Gallery in Vista Home Premium. I have a photo scanned in TIFF with a size of 2.5 Gigabytes! I cannot open the photo and I also receive the same message you have posted. What is the size limitation of photo's in Photo Gallery? Thanks On Monday, June 8, 2009 at 4:53 pm, Jason D. wrote: >Venom? Please. Just skepticism. I see no reason why an integrated 64-bit application >on a 64-bit operating system with 8 gigs of RAM and a high-end workstation graphics >card should have a problem with a relatively small image only 200+ MB in size. I >had already gone ahead and installed IrfanView to get around the issue since I've >used it commercially for viewing large tiff images of blueprints also in the 30,000px+ >range. > >To me, the issue still stands, though. Whether or not the problem I'm having with >the picture gallery app is a limitation of the program remains unanswered. My concern >is, if other people aren't having the same problem with the the picture gallery and >similarly-sized images, than that would indicate the program on my end has become >broken or corrupted and I need to re-install it or Windows as a whole, because it >may also be an indicator of other system problems, as it is an integrated system >application. > >Without definitive specifications on the Photo Gallery application, and no indications >anywhere I've looked on the web about it having inherent limitations regarding image >and file size, I kind of have to assume that for some reason my particular application >is not functioning properly and using a third party app is not a solution for the >problem, only a work-around. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Windows Photo Gallery Won't Open Large Files Friday, June 26, 2009 at 3:16 pm Posted by MartinM (7551 messages posted) I'm afraid I don't have the answer, but I'm not surprised its choking on a 2.5 GB file - Photo gallery is after all only a basic "look see" application. IrfanView is a decent free picture editor - I don't know if it can cope with 2.5 GB pictures but I've used it successfully with a 1.9 GB picture. Worth a try, I'd say. BTW that TIFF is probably at a far higher resolution than the original, which is a bit pointless really. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Windows Photo Gallery Won't Open Large Files Thursday, July 16, 2009 at 12:18 pm Posted by Jason D. (23 messages posted) As I said, I don't have a good spread of images of varying file sizes and/or pixel dimensions to really test what the upper limit is of the gallery. The two factors are of course related but it seems to me the gallery is having more a problem with the image size than the file size. Also, I just can't track down any specifications for the application, probably because it's just integrated into Windows. I'm pretty content with just using IrfanView. Like I mentioned before, I've used it before in the construction industry for viewing large, high resolution blueprints, and it was always very agile for panning and zooming. My biggest complaint about the photo gallery seeming broken is it makes me feel like my whole operating system might be broken in some way, which is a very unpleasant thought. I can definitely recommend IrfanView because it is an extremely light program that integrates well with Windows Vista. But I'm going to keep trying to diagnose the issue with photo gallery in the hopes there is a fix or at least some kind of diagnostic information I can pass along to Microsoft to determine the problem. On Friday, June 26, 2009 at 12:38 pm, Larry Lecuyer wrote: >Jason: I am also experiencing apparent limitations with Photo Gallery in Vista Home >Premium. I have a photo scanned in TIFF with a size of 2.5 Gigabytes! I cannot >open the photo and I also receive the same message you have posted. What is the >size limitation of photo's in Photo Gallery? Thanks > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Windows Photo Gallery Won't Open Large Files Thursday, July 16, 2009 at 12:28 pm Posted by Jason D. (23 messages posted) I can possibly see an issue there that might be related to available RAM or swap, but the largest pictures I've been dealing with personally are barely over 300MB in size, which to me is fairly minute in today's scale. IrfanView still might have some problems with files in the ±2.0GB range because it's only a 32-bit application and will have the usual limitations with address space. On Friday, June 26, 2009 at 3:16 pm, MartinM wrote: > >I'm afraid I don't have the answer, but I'm not surprised its choking on a 2.5 GB >file - Photo gallery is after all only a basic "look see" application. > >IrfanView is a decent free picture editor - I don't know if it can cope with 2.5 >GB pictures but I've used it successfully with a 1.9 GB picture. Worth a try, I'd >say. > >BTW that TIFF is probably at a far higher resolution than the original, which is >a bit pointless really. > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Windows Photo Gallery Won't Open Large Files Friday, August 7, 2009 at 3:11 am Posted by RogerB (1 messages posted) I suffer the same problem, which thus seems to result from an inherent limitation in the application. It seems fairly clearly one of pixel numbers. I've been constructing images of large historical maps by assembling mosaics of photos of individual sections and Photo Gallery won't open images of 8768 x 14686 px either at the original 25MB for a high-quality jpeg or when cut down to 4.5MB by reducing the jpeg quality. On the other hand it will open 8678 x 9670 as either a high-quality jpeg at 16.7MB or an uncompressed tiff at 242MB. Irfanview works fine for all these (better at full-screen because it responds more quickly to zooming) but it would be nice if one could just click and open all images in Photo Gallery. The real annoyance, though, is that Microsoft suggest the file is damaged or corrupted when the file is fine but has hit their own limitation. Why can't they just say so? On Thursday, July 16, 2009 at 12:18 pm, Jason D. wrote: >As I said, I don't have a good spread of images of varying file sizes and/or pixel >dimensions to really test what the upper limit is of the gallery. The two factors >are of course related but it seems to me the gallery is having more a problem with >the image size than the file size. Also, I just can't track down any specifications >for the application, probably because it's just integrated into Windows. > >I'm pretty content with just using IrfanView. Like I mentioned before, I've used >it before in the construction industry for viewing large, high resolution blueprints, >and it was always very agile for panning and zooming. My biggest complaint about >the photo gallery seeming broken is it makes me feel like my whole operating system >might be broken in some way, which is a very unpleasant thought. > >I can definitely recommend IrfanView because it is an extremely light program that >integrates well with Windows Vista. But I'm going to keep trying to diagnose the >issue with photo gallery in the hopes there is a fix or at least some kind of diagnostic >information I can pass along to Microsoft to determine the problem. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Windows Photo Gallery Won't Open Large Files Wednesday, August 19, 2009 at 5:45 pm Posted by demichae (1 messages posted) I came across this thread after experiencing the exact same problem. I'm scanning a few thousand of my old color negatives, and when I set the scanner to 2400 dpi and view them in Photo Gallery, I can see the thumbnail but when I try and open the picture I get the "can't open this picture" notification. The smaller images work fine. To confirm it's a limitation with the application, I opened the same scanned photos in Adobe Photo Elements and I can see them perfectly. I'm running Vista Home Premium on a brand new HP desktop. It's appalling that Microsoft can't even include a decent photo viewer. God I wish I had bought a Mac. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Windows Photo Gallery Won't Open Large Files Thursday, September 10, 2009 at 7:26 pm Posted by Steve Beesley (1 messages posted) Hi, guys and girls. I use vista ultimate which also will not open files larger than 6MB but Adobe essentials 7 does, I believe Adobe will open most photos even the adobe 4, 5 and 6 versions of essentials. I also use genuie fractals which enlarge my photos to sometimes 56MB and Adobe has no problem with them. Of course microsoft viewer will not open them as it is only a basic viewer and not a fully blown application to manipulate your precious and loved photos. Adobe essentials is a worth while application if you can afford it and well worth buying even if you buy one of the older versions. Ifran view is also good, and free but can't really compare fully to the Adobe cheaper versions. There is nothing wrong with your computers, it's just that you need the correct viewer and MS doesn't supply it with is OS. Microsoft will give you the updates for the photo gallery if they are availiable but to date there are none so if you have a camera with more than 7MP then please consider another photo manipulation program such as Adobe, Nero, Roxio, Coral or even photo commander by Ashampoo which is cheap enough and very cheerfull. Hope this helps, as all the latter names mentioned will open your larger pictures. best regards. Steve. On Thursday, July 16, 2009 at 12:28 pm, Jason D. wrote: >I can possibly see an issue there that might be related to available RAM or swap, >but the largest pictures I've been dealing with personally are barely over 300MB >in size, which to me is fairly minute in today's scale. > >IrfanView still might have some problems with files in the ±2.0GB range because it's >only a 32-bit application and will have the usual limitations with address space. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows Vista Discussion Forum