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My brother in law took some pictures for me of my daughter after she was born.
When I open up the pictures or look at the previews, they all look like this (with the bottom half gray):
At first I thought that the images were just corrupted, but after playing around with them I noticed something odd.
If I right click on the image and select rotate clockwise (or counter clockwise), I can see the whole image for a second. Like this:
But after a second the thumbnail looks like this:
If it can access the full image for a second, is there a chance I can get the full image restored? Or somehow save it off? (These pictures are non-recoverable otherwise.)
@vaccano I have answered similar topic with more details http://stackoverflow.com/questions/33236985/jpg-image-partially-gray-while-loading/33379182#33379182
– maytham-ɯɐɥʇʎɐɯ – 2015-11-11T22:12:11.243Ancient question that just got bumped. The fact that the complete image is visible briefly before the gray appears means that all of the image content is still there. Whatever the issue is appears to cause the rendering software to add the gray band. I don't have a specific solution, but I would try opening the image in other software to see if something else can handle whatever got corrupted and display it properly. Irfanview is sometimes good for that. Then you can save it as a new file with that software, hopefully uncorrupted. (cont'd) – fixer1234 – 2019-04-17T02:38:37.783
Worst case, you could display it full-screen in landscape orientation and capture the screen. It may have lower resolution, but at least you would have a viewable image. – fixer1234 – 2019-04-17T02:38:43.473
1What format are the images in? Have you tried loading them in other programs (paint)? – Pubby – 2011-10-08T05:38:23.030