That 39.9 MB jpg will be 1.5 (and more) GB in Gimp. Put the cursor at the bottom of Gimp window and the size in memory shows.
There are memory constraints using a 32 bit system, maybe that is kicking in.
Not sure if ImageMagick will work on such a large image but worth a try. https://www.imagemagick.org/script/download.php scroll down to bottom of page.
The syntax is simple: A windows cmd terminal where the image is stored and
There are memory constraints using a 32 bit system, maybe that is kicking in.
Not sure if ImageMagick will work on such a large image but worth a try. https://www.imagemagick.org/script/download.php scroll down to bottom of page.
The syntax is simple: A windows cmd terminal where the image is stored and
Code:
magick convert something.jpg -colorspace gray new.jpg