I Don't Even
Way back in April, I was trying to pull together all of Hitomi Kaze's "Glass Houses" fanart together on one page so it wouldn't all disappear off the 'net, because many of the URLs no longer led to where they used to or I found pages with broken image boxes. First I was scouring manually online and picked some up, then someone was kind enough to e-mail all the images that person had. Then maitai1again brought me into contact with the artist, who was pleased by the idea and sent me all the images plus some artist-translated English versions of them, which was wonderful. (Also, the artist's preferred name now is "Koro.") But my grandmother passed and things/life happened, and I put that project on the back burner.
Today I was looking through what I had, getting rid of duplicates (since I had three sources for some images), checking sizes, starting to change the artist's filenames into English because my keyboard can't produce the Cyrillic lettering they were originally named in, but I ran into a big problem. My (admittedly 15-year-old copy of) Photoshop won't open most of the artist's files properly, even though the files are jpg and can be viewed in some other programs. When I Open, I instead get a New box that lists the dimensions of the file, then when I hit OK only a blank white image shows up. When I loaded one of those renamed files that Photoshop refused--this one, at the artist's original size, that I personally subtitle "Owned!" and look where Schuldig's mark is--up to my website, the image does appear. But when I saved that file from the 'net as a new file, Photoshop still reacts the same way!
Does anyone with technical knowledge know what's going on in Photoshop and how I can fix it so I can change size to create smaller version of the files? I haven't talked to the artist in months, s/he probably won't know what's causing my problem anyway, and there's a bit of a language gap that could turn into a chasm if we tried to discuss American image editing software quirks.
In the meantime, also enjoy this artist-translated piece, which I call "'Fairy Godmother' Plan," at the artist's original size.
ETA: I found a workaround!
Today I was looking through what I had, getting rid of duplicates (since I had three sources for some images), checking sizes, starting to change the artist's filenames into English because my keyboard can't produce the Cyrillic lettering they were originally named in, but I ran into a big problem. My (admittedly 15-year-old copy of) Photoshop won't open most of the artist's files properly, even though the files are jpg and can be viewed in some other programs. When I Open, I instead get a New box that lists the dimensions of the file, then when I hit OK only a blank white image shows up. When I loaded one of those renamed files that Photoshop refused--this one, at the artist's original size, that I personally subtitle "Owned!" and look where Schuldig's mark is--up to my website, the image does appear. But when I saved that file from the 'net as a new file, Photoshop still reacts the same way!
Does anyone with technical knowledge know what's going on in Photoshop and how I can fix it so I can change size to create smaller version of the files? I haven't talked to the artist in months, s/he probably won't know what's causing my problem anyway, and there's a bit of a language gap that could turn into a chasm if we tried to discuss American image editing software quirks.
In the meantime, also enjoy this artist-translated piece, which I call "'Fairy Godmother' Plan," at the artist's original size.
ETA: I found a workaround!