JPGs display in Finder

My finder window does strange things with JPGs. Some are shown as actual photographs and others have this Preview file default view.
I used to just open a finder window and choose pictures I needed but more and more photos are now turning "blank" with this default Preview icon. So one needs to open all files in preview or other application and pick from then, which is not a timesaving option.
How can I convert the Preview thumbs to original photograph in Finder?

In my case, images from my Digital camera show the preview icon or a generic tiff/jpg icon. I can set my view preferences to show icon preview as mentioned above (but this is typcally slower to display when opening the folder.) Opening the image in Photoshop then saving the file saves an invisible file that has a thumbnail image (for example filename is photo.jpg and an invisible file is created called .photo.jpg) when saved.
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