Cannot View Edited Image - Completely Black

I did have this once but unfortunately had to scrap the image as I never found out what had happened. Hopefully someone will know for you :-)

It has happened to me, too. I found out that the header of the file was corrupted and could not be repaired.

I searched and searched. Didn't understand 99% of what I was reading but I got the idea that it might have to do with a corrupted tiff. I always save to tiff after edits. Even though I was exporting to a folder for FAA upload as a jpg, I was still getting a black image. Finally I went back into CS6 and saved there as a jpg. That seemed to work. But I have no idea why or whether I just got lucky.

So maybe it's an isolated, "who knows why" thing and nothing to do with software or procedure?

Mine was a tiff too... in GIMP

Perhaps that is a clue

There definitely seems to be a connection. I can save as a tiff but then I can't view it elsewhere - or edit it in Elements, for example. But if I save as a jpg, I'm fine. I have now used Topaz Impression on half a dozen images or so and this is consistently my experience.

Nikolyn, just found this

Some programs cannot open 16 bit images, only 8 bit. See what happens if you change the type to 8-bit and save the image as tif (under a different name) and try to open them in you program. If it now works, your program does not handle 16-bit images.

Thanks, Abbie. Not quite understanding all this but it does seem to have to do with some programs being unable to deal with 16 bit images.