Focal Blade White Out

[Fodoze]

I'm using Focal Blade with PS 7.01 on XP Pro. Often, after using FocalBlade to sharpen a photo, when I attempt to sharpen the next photo with FocalBlade the image becomes whited out, as if it is terribly overexposed. If I close the image and reopen it the same thing happens, but if I close PS and reopen it then FocalBlade works correctly.

When the problem occurs, the preview image in FocalBlade looks normal but after clicking OK the PS image becomes overexposed.

Has anyone else seen this? Is there a fix?

Thanks!

[Doug]

Seems to be happening on larger files for me. I used to get error messages and upgraded to 1 Gig of memory. Errors have gone away but now have that "overexposed"/whiteout look. I am at a loss for what to do.

[Doug]

My memory setting in Photoshop 7 was set to use 100%. I backed it down to 75% and has worked on the 220MB file that was "over-exposing". Seems to be memory related.

Doug

[Fodoze]

I backed memory utilization off to 80% and it seemed to fix it. I hate to have bought all that high-speed memory and then have to disable part of it, but if it fixes the problem...

Thanks for your help!

[HaraldHeim]

It is the first time that I hear about this problem. FocalBlade 1.01 is almost finished and may not have this problem anymore, because it will need almost no RAM for processing very large images. But I would like to convince myself.

Can anyone of you tell me if it occurs at a certain image size, how many RAM you have or any other conditions that need to be given to reproduce the problem?

Thanks!

[Doug]

[Fodoze]

[HaraldHeim]

Thanks, Fodoze, for testing the beta of FocalBlade 1.01 and letting me know that the White-Out-problem dissappeared.