Photos distored and unrecognisable
Hi! I'm a relative newbie, switched over to Mac in the later half of last year. I'm not a photographic wizzkid, I just take photos using all the auto settings and want nice photos on my computer
So I have a Sony DSLR A-100, MacBook Pro (not the brand new ones), and an iMac 24". Whenever I transfer photos from the camera to the computer, some photos have an error message (the photo is unrecognisable), many have completely distorted colour (fluorescent green, violet), photos are cut in half or rearranged and some are fine. The same problem happens whether I transfer onto the MBP or the iMac. I've used both a card-reader and the direct cable to transfer the photos...no difference. The problem happens in all applications, be it Finder, Photoshop, Sony Image Data Suite. The weird thing is sometimes, the image will appear fine for a split second after opening, but then almost immediately become distorted! I've updated every last part of both computers and the camera .
Here is a link of what the photos look like:
http://img198.imageshack.us/img198/9682/dsc03330g.jpg
I'm so confused. They work fine on Windows computers. Does anyone have any idea? I haven't been able to find other threads on the issue. (please bare in mind I'm not very techie! thank you)
Many many thanks for your responses
Welcome to the Apple Discussions. It looks like the file is damaged, i.e. incomplete or whatever. You say they work OK on a PC. Have you tried coping one back to the PC and see if it works? If it doesn't then the original copying from the PC to your Mac damaged the file and you might need to recopy them to the Mac again.
Can you open any of the problem files and display them correctly with Preview? If you can you can try using the Save As command, create a new file name and file, import it back into iPhoto and see if it displays correctly.
You can also try dropping one of the exported problem file on this Automator workflow, *+Convert to JPG and Embed sRGB profile+* and see if the resulting file is viewable in iPhoto. You can download it from Toad's Cellar.
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