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Mark Vinbury
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From: N. Kingstown, Rhode Island, USA

posted 30 November 2005 10:25 AM     profile     
OK- I give up. Been trying to figure this out for a while now can't get to the bottom of it.
Here is an example---
Doug Beaumier has some beautiful pictures of his Stringmaster in another thread.I have downloaded them into a file but can't open them with any photo program I have (Photoshop, Dell Pic Studio and a few others)
One of his pics opens as a bitmap,the rest look to be JPEG but won't open.
Are they protected somehow, maybe by the photo host?

[This message was edited by Mark Vinbury on 30 November 2005 at 12:10 PM.]

Wiz Feinberg
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From: Flint, Michigan, USA

posted 30 November 2005 03:01 PM     profile     
When you are viewing an image right click on it and select Save As. A Save dialog will open with the filename filled in. If it ends with .jpg, that is it's proper extension. You can also right click on the photo and choose Properties. The Properties will usually identify the file type.

JPG is the most common format for displaying photos on websites. Bitmaps and TIFFs are huge files and rarely used on the web. The other common web image formats are PNG and GIF. Gifs only display 256 colors and are no good for photography purposes. PNGs support millions of colors at a filesize similar to a .jpg, and were developed to be an alternative to JPG files, as a web display format.

If you are still having a problem with these pictures post a link to them here and I'll go look at them and tell you what extensions they have and which programs open them by default.

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Mark Vinbury
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From: N. Kingstown, Rhode Island, USA

posted 01 December 2005 02:01 AM     profile     
Thanks for the information Wiz--- Here is the link http://steelguitarforum.com/Forum2/HTML/008170.html

When I try to open any pic I get an error message "unknown or invalid JPEG marker encountered"
The "properties" all look like I should be able to open them (.jpg)
I don't have problems with other .jpg images in the same folder.
I used the right click "Save picture As" method of downloading

[This message was edited by Mark Vinbury on 01 December 2005 at 02:29 AM.]

Jeff Agnew
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From: Dallas, TX

posted 01 December 2005 05:40 AM     profile     
Opened fine for me in Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro, and the GIMP. Mac, PC, and Linux.
Mark Vinbury
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From: N. Kingstown, Rhode Island, USA

posted 01 December 2005 05:58 AM     profile     
If I'm not mistaken I think I've had this problem before with downloaded pics.I just figured it was some kind of copyright protection so gave up and deleted the pic.

Could there be some WinXp preference or control set or not set that disallows opening downloaded pics?I've sniffed around a bit with this in mind but can't seem to find anything.

Dave Potter
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From: Republic of Texas (near San Antonio)

posted 01 December 2005 07:29 AM     profile     
The top image saved (right click, "save image as", and opened for me fine with Netscape and Photoshop. I didn't try the rest, but I doubt there's any kind of protection going on.

I think the problem is in your computer, especially if it's not a new problem. First thing I'd try is deleting the file type association for this image type. My PC shows three, JPE, JPEG, and JPG. After you delete those, double-click on any jpeg image file and tell Windows what app to open it with.

Charley Adair
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From: Maxwell, Texas, USA

posted 01 December 2005 07:58 AM     profile     
I right clicked the first pic and saved directly to My Pictures, and it opened fine.

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Wiz Feinberg
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From: Flint, Michigan, USA

posted 01 December 2005 09:51 AM     profile     
I just downloaded all of the photos of that StringMaster and they all opened fine in CoffeeCup Quick Viewer, which is my chosen default program to open (not edit) JPGs.

I believe it may be in your best interest to reinstall your graphics programs and make sure that you have upgraded Windows against image rendering vulnerabilities. Patches were released for at least three major image vulnerabilities this calendar year.

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Mark Vinbury
Member

From: N. Kingstown, Rhode Island, USA

posted 01 December 2005 10:21 AM     profile     
Thanks --I'm pretty sure my photo viewing and editing programs are OK I use them all the time.I have .jpg pics downloaded from eMail attachments in the same folder and they open fine with all my photo programs.
Seems to be only pics from websites that get fouled up in the download process.
I'll have to check on how up to date I am with the Win upgrades.

[This message was edited by Mark Vinbury on 01 December 2005 at 06:05 PM.]

Jon Moen
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From: Canada

posted 05 December 2005 06:12 PM     profile     
ignore this

[This message was edited by Jon Moen on 05 December 2005 at 06:20 PM.]

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