Pain't cannot read this file. This is not a valid bitmap file or it's format is not currently suppo

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May 26, 2013
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Have some photos of a warehouse fire in Plymouth Indiana. Files were saved as .jpg Can't get them to open.

One message is "

Pain't cannot read this file. This is not a valid bitmap file or it's format is not currently supported."

Couldn’t display DSC-0023.jpg because a suitable graphics importer could not be found.

Carl Beason

Windows 7, Photoshop cs4

Help Please

cs4

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station_two

Inspiring

Carl, I'm confused. Your topic title says "Pain't cannot read this file". Did you mean to type Photoshop?

Also that seems to be a file from a digital camera. Is it in some special compressed format or anything like that?

You say you also have Photoshop CS4. Have you tried opening the file in Photoshop rather than in Paint?

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Participant

Photoshop won't open them, neither will Irfanview.

Noel Carboni

Legend

The entire world of software is trying to tell you the file is corrupted.

Look for a backup copy. You DO back your work up, right?

-Noel

the_wine_snob

Inspiring

As has been suggested above, I would explore Opening the files in another program first, and if successful, just doing a Save_As from that program.

I do not know how sensitive Paint might be, but Ps really wants the JPEG header info to be well-formed. I often encounter JPEG errors in Ps, and my first stop is to IrfanView (free), or ThumbsPlus (commercial), as both seem much more lenient with JPEG's. I have only had a few files, that nothing on my computer would open. I assume that they were just too corrupt.

With either my IrfanView, or ThumbsPlus, when Opened, I do a Save_As, and choose a low compression/high-quality JPEG. If you other program supports Save_As PSD, that would be my # 1 choice, and keep JPEG out of the mix from that point on.

Good luck,

Hunt