Cant open some jpegs

Clevo · Post by **Clevo** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 4:12 pm

Hi folks,

I'm new to Photo impact and with the little time I have spent with it I'm finding it pretty easy to use.

Curiously though, PIx3 doesn;t seem to want to open certain of my Jpegs I have.

the jpegs were sent to me from a friend who had an awesome party. I've made a video of the day and the official photographer and a few others took pics which have been e-mailed to me.

Some of them were rather large jpegs (3-5mb, 3000 x 1000+pixels wide but only 72 dpi) which I thought were a bit odd.

All these pics open fine in Photoshop CS2 ( I adjusted levels, resized & renamed) but some of them won't open in PIx3.

I get the error message 800:93:1468 at the bottom of the text which simply reads Unable to open the file [path].

Any ideas how I could resolve this? as I really really like the express fix on PIx3

Thanks

heinz-oz · Post by **heinz-oz** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 11:07 pm

There must be some form of corruption with these and PI X3 hangs itself up on these. As for the 72 dpi issue, I would not worry about this since it has absolutely no influence on the image on the screen. Dpi comes into play when printing and simply squeezes more or less pixels into the space of an inch. The higher the dpi the smaller the image will print. If you think 3.5 MB is big try an image from an 8 MP or 10 MP DSLR. My Canon has 8 MP and some of the images with fine detail come in at around 6 MB. In RAW format these can be up to 20 MB.

Clevo · Post by **Clevo** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 1:57 am

It doesn't crash PIX3 at all...strangely VS11.5+ shows them in the library as a black square so I think it's a corruption in those particular files.

I was surprised by the 75 dpi cause the pics came from a professional and that dpi limits pan & zoom in video.

I'm going to try opening them in Photoshop and saving them in another format and see how that goes.

Clevo · Post by **Clevo** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 2:42 am

Yep that worked...

Opened in Photoshop..re-saved them as bitmaps (.bmp) and they opened in PIX3 fine.

heinz-oz · Post by **heinz-oz** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 10:43 am

Clevo wrote:...

I was surprised by the 75 dpi cause the pics came from a professional and that dpi limits pan & zoom in video.

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You are wrong there. The dpi has absolutely no effect when displaying an image on a PC or TV. It only applies at time of printing.