is there anyway to read a .txt image file in photoshop! help

bill · Post by **bill** » Fri May 16, 2003 5:41 pm

please help!

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sat May 17, 2003 8:51 am

.txt is a plain text file, not an image.

Post by **HaraldHeim** » Sun May 18, 2003 2:23 pm

In Photoshop you can use the "Open As" command and select RAW as file type. That way you can open any file you like and Photoshop interprets the text data as image data.

Another options is the TabbedText plugin. It is a free format plug-in from Reindeer Graphics (for Win/Mac), reads and writes a grayscale images from and to a tab-delimited text file. The text file can be created and manipulated in a spreadsheet like Excel or produced with text output from any arbitrary source. See
http://www.reindeergraphics.com/free.html

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri May 23, 2003 12:41 am

Wow, now I didn't know that!

I'm going to check that out myself later when I open Photoshop!

Roo · Post by **Roo** » Fri May 23, 2003 5:00 am

Damn I keep forgetting to log in!!

Anyway I tried that, and when I opened a .txt using open as RAW, all I got was a small grey square.

Is there another trick?

Post by **HaraldHeim** » Sat May 24, 2003 7:53 pm

Usually you are prompted for the image size of the RAW file. If the text file is very small, there will probably be not enough data to fill a large image.