On 29/05/2009, at 1:10 PM, Laura Webb wrote:

Please can someone help me with my problem.

So far I have scanned 12 of a number of old B&W photos to use in a Birthday Book project.

As recommended recently by Susan, I am using Snapfish to upload my photos before creating the book. It seems ideal for my purpose but some of the editing tools e.g. cropping, are not available to Mac users. So I need to put the B&W photos into iPhoto to edit them before uploading.

The scanned images are in a folder on the desktop from where they can be viewed without any trouble at all. However once in iPhoto they are black, no image at all. I've tried using some of the adjustments available to no avail.

Then I discovered that if saved as .pct rather than .jpg I can put them into iPhoto edit them and do whatever I wish with them. The trouble with that idea is that to upload to Snapfish photos have to be jpg. So I scanned them all again as jpg but, apart from three photos which, for some unaccountable reason are perfect, the rest are blanks when put in iPhoto.

Would the resolution at which the photos are scanned have something to do with the problem? This is currently 300 dpi and why it works with some but not all photos is quite beyond me.

Kind regards
Laura


Hi Laura,

How are you scanning the original B&W photos?
You aren't scanning in grayscale are you?
You need to us the sRGB colour profile - iPhoto does not work with grayscale colour profiles.

Cheers,
Ronni

17" MacBook Pro Intel Core 2 Duo
2.4 GHz / 3GB / 800MHz / 160GB
OS X 10.5.7


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