Every once in a while, I have to download a pic from FB for some thing or another and when I open it in PS (v.24.75) I get this sort of weirdness. I get weird horizontal lines on the left side and the color goes completly wonky, like a purple, green and gray tritone. And then in this case, the next pic downloaded from the same FB profile, no problems at all. Has anyone seen this before? It happens on a Mac and Windows 11, same CC subscription though. Such a pain.
Every once in a while, I will get an error that reads something along the lines of “could not open file due to incomplete file” or something like that (it’s a rare occurrence) for a bitmap file; but I have never seen a file open up and look garbled like that.
Yea, there’s no message at all just “TA DA!! I look like crap!!!”
Odd. There is a long running thread on Adobe’s support forums mentioning the issue with a few recommendations on possible fixes. I believe one of them mentioned opening the file up as a RAW file.
I assume it is similar on PC, but on a Mac to open it as a Camera Raw file (regardless of whether it is a JPEG or whatnot), go to file/open and select “camera raw” as the format. Navigate to where your file is on your Mac and select “open”
Not that it matters, but I think “unexpected end of file” is the error message I see.
It’s definitely compression issues - or strange jpegs saved from other software that looks ok on the Web but Photoshop can’t decipher it because it’s encoded strangely.
Open it in something else and resave it. Or use an online image converter - there are some online that even do batches.
Things like that I open in Image Preview and export and it usually sorts it out.
Like Smurf and StudioMonkey said. Open with something else.
That’s why I have a few different can-openers.
My favorite is GraphicConverter (Lemke Software.)
Opened in the Photo app, saved as a copy and BOOM. Bob’s yer uncle.
Thanks for the helpt guys!
So someone posted the EXACT same problem on Reddit today, lol. It’s a FB issue too. I was scared it was my graphics card.
It’s just encoding - not all jpegs are equal.
What I do is save to directory and then rename extension to jpg or gif. That’s faster then opening in photoshop or whatever and resaving as jpg.
That doesn’t work
Ok. Some phones take HDR jpg’s. Could that be the answer your looking for? I clicked the link to adobe forums and the example pictures looked akin to film negatives. There are also issues when transfering these images to computer saved from FB to phone and then to computer instead of using FB and saving directly to computer. Remember phones use a different operating system then computers, could that be it? A file goes wonky after saving in a different system.
Already explained it, different encoding, photoshop doesnt know how tonunpacknit, also, indesign preview shows wrong cos it doesnt understand the encoding.
The answer is already given. Open in somethimg else and resave it, online or another app.
Sorry forgive my ignorance but what does tonunpacknit mean?
I think it’s a typo or weird autocorrect glitch. I think Smurf2 intended to write, to unpack it.
Yeh, new phone 
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