Help!!
Printed From: Pixel Joint
Category: The Lounge
Forum Name: Resources and Support
Forum Discription: Help your fellow pixel artists out with links to good tutorials, other forums, software, fonts, etc. Bugs and support issues should go here as well.
URL: https://pixeljoint.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2711
Printed Date: 30 October 2025 at 6:59pm
Topic: Help!!
Posted By: Soul
Subject: Help!!
Date Posted: 03 August 2006 at 3:36pm
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Ok i have a seperate folder where i keep all my artwork i save them as png's now everytime i try to open them up in ms paint it says 'paint cannot read this file This is not a valid bitmap file, or its format is not currently supported this computer' has never done that. can anyone help? |
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Posted By: Souly
Date Posted: 03 August 2006 at 6:40pm
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You're name is too close to mine. I don't like that. ------------- 
I am the jesus of PJ. |
Posted By: Monkey 'o Doom
Date Posted: 03 August 2006 at 6:45pm
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Yeah, that throws me off too.
We could really use some more info. OS, service packs, etc. would be helpful. ------------- http://pixelmonkey.ensellitis.com"> 
RPG is numberwang. |
Posted By: Psychotic_Carp
Date Posted: 04 August 2006 at 5:36am
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If you try to upload it to photobucket or some other image host, what does it say? -------------  got game?
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Posted By: Soul
Date Posted: 04 August 2006 at 9:42am
| Well i just downloaded the service pack 2 the other day and everything seemed to work fine until yesterday. I an't put it on my photobucket becuase my computer wont even open the files. im runing on XP. |
Posted By: Blueberry_pie
Date Posted: 04 August 2006 at 11:35am
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Originally posted by Soul I an't put it on my photobucket becuase my computer wont even open the files. Surely you can just upload the file without having to open it yourself? ------------- |
Posted By: Soul
Date Posted: 04 August 2006 at 12:01pm
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So your telling me to upload the whole folder? Well i tried loading each image onto photbucket and this is what it said.. *One or more pictures has an invalid format (jpg|gif|png|bmp|tif|swf) This is a PNG image im trying to upload. |
Posted By: Souly
Date Posted: 04 August 2006 at 12:14pm
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Maybe it's because MSPaint sets all PNG files to have capslock? .png and .PNG are two different things to the interweb. -------------
I am the jesus of PJ. |
Posted By: Psychotic_Carp
Date Posted: 04 August 2006 at 2:10pm
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Is it the same for all other formats? ------------- got game?
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Posted By: Soul
Date Posted: 04 August 2006 at 2:58pm
Well the image is the same as all other .PNG formats... But i still don't know whats wrong with these damn thing...
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Posted By: Monkey 'o Doom
Date Posted: 04 August 2006 at 3:37pm
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Try renaming them to .bmp. It could be that Paint was just saving them named as .png when they were bmps on the imside. ------------- http://pixelmonkey.ensellitis.com">
RPG is numberwang. |
Posted By: Soul
Date Posted: 04 August 2006 at 5:03pm
| Would it mess up the quality of the image? |
Posted By: Monkey 'o Doom
Date Posted: 04 August 2006 at 5:13pm
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No. Doing that would change nothing but the filename. It *might* fix your problem though. ------------- http://pixelmonkey.ensellitis.com">
RPG is numberwang. |
Posted By: Soul
Date Posted: 04 August 2006 at 6:16pm
Nope didn't do anything. I just don't get why this happened i have never had problems like this. 
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Posted By: Blueberry_pie
Date Posted: 05 August 2006 at 12:44am
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This is pretty strange. Have you tried opening the files with another image-viewing/editing program? If you can't open them with another program either, your files might be corrupt. ------------- |
Posted By: Soul
Date Posted: 05 August 2006 at 9:52am
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Yes i tried opening them in photoshop, mspaint, graphics gale, image ready, fax viewer :S |
Posted By: Blueberry_pie
Date Posted: 05 August 2006 at 10:57am
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...and they didn't work there either? I'm guessing they're corrupted then. Nothing you can do about it, I think. ------------- |
Posted By: Colbert Nation
Date Posted: 05 August 2006 at 11:13am
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Try opening it with gimp. If not, then open it with Windows Picture and Fax viewer. |
Posted By: Psychotic_Carp
Date Posted: 07 August 2006 at 8:29pm
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No, I need to know if your having the same problem if you save it as a bmp or other format ------------- got game?
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Posted By: Soul
Date Posted: 08 August 2006 at 8:38am
The problem is i can't even open the files up. Windows fax viewer does not work as stated above.. 
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