I am having a very odd time with GIMP today. The issue involves exports.
When I try to export an image that I've worked on as either JPG or PNG, it behaves as if it is working fine but when I upload the image to my hosting service to use on the website I am building, the picture is either entirely undisplayable (most of them) or, a few cases, badly scrambled to the point that I don't even recognize the picture.
I'm simply taking an existing very large picture, scaling it down, then cropping the result and exporting it as JPG or PNG. I've done that many times before. Up until a few hours ago, I was still running GIMP 2.8.18 but after I detected this problem, I upgraded to 2.10.8. Much to my disappointment, I get the same issue in the 2.10.8.
I need to emphasize that I was editing photos quite a bit earlier this week and had no issues with the files produced by exports to either JPG or PNG format. It's as if something has changed in GIMP since earlier this week. I've been running 2.8.18 for the last couple of years and I'm at a loss to try to understand what could have changed in the last couple of days to mess up the export processing.
[Update:
Just as a workaround, I tried to do the same things in IrfanView a few moments ago and it is producing undisplayable pictures too!!! Now I'm REALLY baffled. Could this be a Windows issue??? I'm running Windows 10 Home (64-bit).]
I hope someone here can suggest a cause for this problem and a way to resolve it. If you need me to upload some samples of the pictures - both the originals and the cropped versions - I will be happy to do that.
When I try to export an image that I've worked on as either JPG or PNG, it behaves as if it is working fine but when I upload the image to my hosting service to use on the website I am building, the picture is either entirely undisplayable (most of them) or, a few cases, badly scrambled to the point that I don't even recognize the picture.
I'm simply taking an existing very large picture, scaling it down, then cropping the result and exporting it as JPG or PNG. I've done that many times before. Up until a few hours ago, I was still running GIMP 2.8.18 but after I detected this problem, I upgraded to 2.10.8. Much to my disappointment, I get the same issue in the 2.10.8.
I need to emphasize that I was editing photos quite a bit earlier this week and had no issues with the files produced by exports to either JPG or PNG format. It's as if something has changed in GIMP since earlier this week. I've been running 2.8.18 for the last couple of years and I'm at a loss to try to understand what could have changed in the last couple of days to mess up the export processing.
[Update:
Just as a workaround, I tried to do the same things in IrfanView a few moments ago and it is producing undisplayable pictures too!!! Now I'm REALLY baffled. Could this be a Windows issue??? I'm running Windows 10 Home (64-bit).]
I hope someone here can suggest a cause for this problem and a way to resolve it. If you need me to upload some samples of the pictures - both the originals and the cropped versions - I will be happy to do that.