lawlbear Posted December 4, 2009 Share Posted December 4, 2009 having trouble opening erf and dds with photoshop anyone know any solutions? i know there is a plugin for .dds but it doesn't seem to work, for both files i just get "photoshop could not complete your request because it is not the right kind of document" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jwvanderbeck Posted December 5, 2009 Share Posted December 5, 2009 I think you mean ERF and DDS, not BBS. ERF files are just packages of other files. You don't load that into Photoshop. You load the DDS files. NVidia makes a plugin for DDS files. If you are running CS4, and have 64bit Photoshop installed, what you need to do is when installing the NVidia plugins, change the install path to the 32bit version of Photoshop. The installer will by default install them to the 64bit version but the plugins don't work in the 64bit version. They work fine in the 32bit version. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexspeed Posted December 5, 2009 Share Posted December 5, 2009 If you wonder where to get that Photoshop Plugin then take a look here: http://developer.nvidia.com/object/photosh...ds_plugins.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lawlbear Posted December 5, 2009 Author Share Posted December 5, 2009 alright thanks ill try changing the path and is there anyway i can open .ERF files? [path changing worked] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChewyGumball Posted December 5, 2009 Share Posted December 5, 2009 You can open them in the editor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lawlbear Posted December 5, 2009 Author Share Posted December 5, 2009 which editor? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FollowTheGourd Posted December 9, 2009 Share Posted December 9, 2009 Open ERFs in the DA toolset or use tazpn's multi-tool (there's also a 3rd party GUI version of it somewhere) http://www.dragonagenexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lawlbear Posted December 9, 2009 Author Share Posted December 9, 2009 thanks a lot, greatly appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LHammonds Posted December 11, 2009 Share Posted December 11, 2009 You can also use other tools to convert DDS (Direct Draw Surface) images into a format you can edit with Photoshop or other editors. Keep in mind that you do not want to convert from a DDS image more than one time. It is kind of like making a fax copy of a fax and the image quality gets worse each time you do it. Get your image into a "source" format that does not degrade each time you make a change and save it. Such as .PSD, .PNG, .PSP, .PSPIMAGE, or .XCF. File types you do NOT want to use as your source are JPG or DDS. DDS Tools Listing LHammonds Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexspeed Posted December 12, 2009 Share Posted December 12, 2009 Thank you for posting that list LHammonds, that looks very usefull =) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts