Photoshop artifacts?

Hi All,
I rendered an image and saved it as an jpeg, openening the jpeg in Photoshop the red line shows some weird artifacts.
Opening the same image in Fireworks and it looks normal.
Anyone experienced this issue? I don't know what happened :-S
edit: Saving the jpeg in Fireworks and pening the file in Photoshop and it looks ok.
thanks
Menno

MennovD wrote:
like I said, it's the same jpeg openen in photoshop and FW..
Like I said, no, it is not (in the way you have presented it on this forum).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG
edit: You can best evaluate the images by overlaying these identical images with the 'difference' mode in Photoshop.
The fact that you can save from FW to open in PS shows that something is unusual about how the image is being originally prepared. As you are noticing the issue in an extreme red, I would not be surprised if color management has some role here. What program is being used to produce your renders? Are you embedding a profile? Is Photoshop assigning a profile?

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<a href="http://imgur.com/izrGuia"><img src="http://i.imgur.com/izrGuia.png" title="source: imgur.com" /></a>
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