Bitmap size
Hey. I was just wondering what the maximum size of a bitmap is in pixels. I just tried to create one 600 tall and 20,000 long and microsoft paint almost crashed my computer. Is it too big? Should I just use Adobe Photoshop :-)?
Quote:Original post by TraderJack
Should I just use Adobe Photoshop :-)?
If you can afford it, yes.
The maximum "standard" width (and height) of a Windows .bmp is 32767; however, Photoshop can handle sizes much greater than this, given enough memory.
20000x600x4Bpp equals almost 46MB of data, and I suspect Paint wants it all in physical memory.
If you can't afford Photoshop or another professional image manipulating app maybe you can download trial/demo. Of course this won't help you if you plan to use it for longer time periods.
Or maybe try Gimp? It's free and there's windows port. But I have no idea how it will behave with images of such size.
BTW why do you need image that big?
Or maybe try Gimp? It's free and there's windows port. But I have no idea how it will behave with images of such size.
BTW why do you need image that big?
Lol I got paint upto a 10k x 10k pic before it crashes... It took 200mb's of ram according to taskman...
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