Fix Photoshop Error Cannot Save File Larger than 2GB

If you are a photographer then you must be doing lot of Photoshop image manipulation on large high-resolution images, and you might finally cross 2GB limit for saving Photoshop. This is actually true if you like to work with lot of layers. While you save such big Photoshop files you may face error as mentioned below:

Suppose you have PSD file on which you have been working on for many months. Recently he has purchased a new computer and when he opens that particular PSD file on his new system, he is not able to save it as a PSD file. The file size as per Windows Explorer is 600MB, but in Photoshop Cc’s the document size displayed at the bottom of the document Windows is 288.4M/1.77GB. However when he tried to save this PSD file on his new computer, he gets this error on the screen: “Error Photoshop cannot save PSD file more than 2GB”. Now he is looking for solution that can help him to recover PSD file error.

Adobe’s new Large Document Format (PSB) adds support for Photoshop files that is bigger than 2GB. The document you save in this manner cannot be accessed in older version of Photoshop but it can be opened in newer version of Photoshop and above version. If you want to use the large document format option, then you have to open Photoshop’s file handling preferences and turn the feature ON. Once this feature gets activated, the large document format becomes an option in your Photoshop save dialogue box.

Photoshop PSD file format may have compatibility problems, i.e. accessing PSD file created by using in newer version of Adobe Photoshop software in earlier Photoshop version can corrupt PSD document and make your months or work valueless. If you are facing such type of issues with your PSD file, then you can use third party tool to fix these errors.

Tool to repair PSD file error:

PSD file repair tool is one of the popular Photoshop repair application, which allow you to repair and fix error such as Photoshop cannot save file more than 2GB. This PSD repair is designed with powerful algorithm that has the capability to fix severely corrupted or damaged PSD or PDD files. This tool can fix PSD file that ahs different color modes such as Bitmap, Gray-scale, RGB color, Indexed color, Lab color, CMYK color. This software can also fix RLE compressed PDF file that are made by different Adobe Photoshop programs. This tool is preferred by most of the users those who uses Photoshop because it has user friendly interface and it is compatible on all version of Windows  operating system.

steps to fix photoshop error:

Step 1: Install and launch PSD file Repair tool. On the main screen you can see the Browse button which helps you to select the corrupted or damaged PSD image.

Step 2: Select the infected PSD/PDD file and Select Repair tab.

Step 3: You will find the tool would scan the selected image file and would fix it.

Step 4: As the scan and repair process ends, the healthy PSD / PDD image file along with its layers and mask files will be displayed. With the Preview option you can view each file.

Step 5: Now select the specific location on your system to save the files.

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