Resetting icons based on file type

Not sure what happened here, but maybe a week or so ago, the icons for my image files (jpg, png, etc.) become different things. In the same folder, JPG files may have 3 or 4 different icons. Sorry, I don't know how else to explain it. Any idea how to make it so they all just go back to the standard icon for those different file types? thanks

Sorry, please disregard. I just restarted Finder and everything works fine now.

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