Lightroom cant Export my File

Glenn Carroll , Sep 05, 2010; 07:36 p.m.

Hey, i am having a hard time getting lightroom to export my large file. I'm trying to take 5 or 6 different images of a scene, stitch them together in photoshop merge, edit in lightroom and save. Also, each photo is an HDR photo of three different exposures. haha so here is what i have done more specifically: Taken 3 exposures for 6 different pans. I took the RAW file for each exposure, and made 6 HDR images in photoshop. Then I took the HDR images which i think are PSD files now, and stitched them together in photomerge. Then this pops out one big panoramic photo in psd format. I imported that into lightroom, cropped, edited color, and finally tried to export as a 16 bit TIF completely uncompressed file for maximum quality. Lightroom took about 5 minutes to export it. When it is done, the final picture is a whopping 280MB, but the image is 1/2 solid gray and 1/2 messed up / horribly blurry, etc.
If anyone knows what i am doing wrong, or if anyone knows of a better process to make the image, I would be very grateful for any input. THANKS
Glenn

Responses

Marc Rochkind , Sep 05, 2010; 11:02 p.m.

Can't answer the question, but a possible workaround is to stay in PS once you have left LR.

Marc

Peter Barnes , Sep 06, 2010; 12:02 a.m.

I would do what Marc suggests - make all changes in PS and then save in whatever format needed.

Andrew Rodney , Sep 06, 2010; 01:43 p.m.

Unless this has recently changed, LR has a 30,000 pixel limit (on the long axis).