Re: FN-FORUM: BROKEN IMAGES help

date posted 12th January 2005 17:53

On 12 Jan 2005, at 16:48, sylvia wrote:

>
> Received images on disc from client [via printers (ha ha)]
>
> all the jpgs look ok at first sight, open directory opus, can see pics
> ok.
> Open them in Corel photopaint they open, edit,etc. etc..
> Put them on a web page and they just won't do it.
> They look ok on irfan view, don't appear on Picasa (see I'm getting
> desperate) etc. etc.
>
> [some are not jpgs but they saved as jpgs and then acted as the others
> do ....
>
> Have done the usual tweeks that usually rescue things, short of using
> a screen view
>
> What have they done ?

My guess is that they are CMYK jpgs, not RGB. (Clue is that they come
from printers.)

Try opening one and changing its color mode to RGB, re-saving it, and
see if that helps.

Cheers

--
Andy Warwick
Creed New Media.