I made a scan of a shirt for a texture file I was going try and use.  It's 2400 dpi and it's original size is 11x17.  The scan came out to a 1.6gb tiff file.  I'm running PS 7 on win xp pro with a gig of ram, and it coughed and died when I tried to open it.  Irfanview gave me out of memory errors as well.  Now I would just rescan it at a smaller resolution, but I'm wondering if there's anything I can do to change the file so I can work with it.  My scanner is at work and I won't be able to use it for the weekend...

... if anyone has any advice, I'd greatly appreciate it.  Thanks...