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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