Urgent help needed with pictures!

carlotta · 18 Aug 2010

Hello everyone. I'm new to this forum and Windows 7, thus any help would be GREATLY appreciated.

My friend sent me these pictures that she claims to have edited on photoshop and a number of them are in black and white. However, when these black and white pictures appear as thumbnails they are in color.

I would very much like to see the pictures in color but when I open them they appear in black and white, like I said. I'm not sure what I should do so that i can see them in color, would anyone happen to have a suggestion for me??

Petey7 · 18 Aug 2010

Sounds like an effect was added in Photoshop. Do you have Photoshop? Have you tried asking the person to send you the original copies of the pictures?

carlotta · 18 Aug 2010

No, I don't have photoshop but do you think it might be worth my while downloading it and trying 2 re-do whatever was done by the person??

I've tried asking her but she doesnt seem to think that those pictures look good in color, which isn't the case at all...

Petey7 · 18 Aug 2010

It's up to you whether you think its worth it or not. I haven't used Photoshop in a long time, so I'm not sure how to remove the B&W filter (or whatever its called now). Personally, I would keep pestering her about letting you see the originals, but that is also up to you.

carlotta · 18 Aug 2010

Lool, Thanks

I think I'll try both your ideas. So you think it's purely because of photoshop? Not a Windows 7 effect? Because this never happened on Vista or XP.

Win7User512 · 18 Aug 2010

If they are jpg, whatever effect was used cannot be undone, as the file was flattened. I've noticed this with Paint.NET. When you edit a photo, the thumbnail looks like an untouched version, but when you view the photo you see the edits made to it. It's really annoying.

Bare Foot Kid · 18 Aug 2010

Photoshop is very expensive to purchase, you can't "just" download it.

Petey7 · 18 Aug 2010

Bare Foot Kid said:

Photoshop is very expensive to purchase, you can't "just" download it.

They have free trials of some versions of Photoshop. IIRC, they last 30-days.

Bare Foot Kid · 18 Aug 2010

Petey7 said:

Bare Foot Kid said:

Photoshop is very expensive to purchase, you can't "just" download it.

They have free trials of some versions of Photoshop. IIRC, they last 30-days.

Thanks mate, I don't use it either.

carlotta · 18 Aug 2010

Yea, it really is annoying, looks like I'm going to have to kiss some serious ass....