Black and white images in iPhoto.

Hello all,
As my old Photoshop no longer works in Leopard, I wanted to use iPhoto to view a collection of jpg format BW images made from hires scans of the negatives. However, after importing them from an iMac file, I saw only black spaces instead of the images.
Am I doing something wrong?
With best wishes for 2008
GeTe

Thanks TD for that - I think my grey cells need converting to RGB too:-)
I asked the same question some time ago, and forgot the answer...
Photoshop is the real way to go.
Thanks anyway.
GeTe

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