Picture icons becoming distorted

I`ve noticed for a while some of my picture icons in the finder window are becoming unrecognizable. I thought it was just my older scanned images but my newer digital ones are also becoming distorted. What would cause this and how can I resore them? I`ve tried replacing them from iphoto, but that only works for a while then they become distorted again along with new ones. Am I over editing them and thus making them unstable? Any help would be most appreciated.

I`ve figured out how to solve my problem but have no idea as to why the problem exsisted in the first place. For anyone else out there having the same kind of frustration, what I did was open the image in preview and "save as", then without changing anything push the save button and a window came up asking to replace. So I just saved as and replaced. So simple. Everything seems fine now. Fingers crossed.

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Michel-
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