Some photos corrupted
I've copied over my collection of photos from my Windows machine to my new MacBook Pro. But for three of the pictures, they appear corrupted (with lots of bright colours) in iPhoto. I've tried opening the pictures in Safari and I get the same problem. But I do not get the problem when I view the thumbnails in Finder or when I use a freeware photo viewer program called Xee.
Does anyone have any idea what the problem is?
MacBook Pro Mac OS X (10.4.8)
MacBook Pro Mac OS X (10.4.8)
haszaidi:
Welcome to the Apple Discussions. It may have something to do with the embedded color profile in the files. You might try opening them with Preview and then do a Save As, pick the JPG format and a different name. See if that will change it. Or you can use GraphicConverter in its demo mode to change the color profile and embed it into the files to see if that would fix it.
Do you Twango?
TIP: For insurance against the iPhoto database corruption that many users have experienced I recommend making a backup copy of the Library6.iPhoto database file and keep it current. If problems crop up where iPhoto suddenly can't see any photos or thinks there are no photos in the library, replacing the working Library6.iPhoto file with the backup will often get the library back. By keeping it current I mean backup after each import and/or any serious editing or work on books, slideshows, calendars, cards, etc. That insures that if a problem pops up and you do need to replace the database file, you'll retain all those efforts. It doesn't take long to make the backup and it's good insurance.
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