Re: Strange Issue, Corrupted file, garbled image, artifacts
Hi PaleoSun,
Thanks for that information. The reason I wondered about your operating system was because I recently ran into a similar problem with a person on a Mac. In that case it turned out to be a conflict between his OS and CS3. When he ran the latest OS update, the problem was solved. Although similar, your problem appears to be different.
Judging from your first post, it sounds like you've taken all the right steps in trying to solve this strange problem. The one thing I'm wondering about is Photoshop's preference file. You mentioned something about "wiping" the preferences, but I'm not sure what that means. Also, keep in mind that reinstalling Photoshop does not install new preferences; a preference file is not created until you run the program. So, if that file was corrupt, reinstalling would not fix it. I'd suggest you actually recreate new preferences according to the instructions found by clicking on [url=http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=328312:2tqmu0xw]THIS LINK[/url:2tqmu0xw] (then scroll to number 10).
There are of course other possibilities, but since you've made no recent OS or Applications changes I would certainly think that if it's a PS problem, then trashing the Prefs and reinstalling would fix it.
