I just loaded PS7 last night and then played around with a few images. Some I only opened. Now all the imagaes I opened in PS show a type of RGB 'dust'. This was not on the original image! It is now though! I always duplicate the image and then work on the dup. No saves or changes on the originals, just open, copy and close. Now all of this show this 'dust' (see attached image). Has anyone seen this before or know if the update to 7.01 is going to stop this from happening? Any help would be gtreatly appriciated. Magick Michael

that is truly odd.... nope, I'm of no help, sorry bro. Try the update, and then retransfer the images to the puter and try again (if you can), see what hapens after reopening them a second time.

Attached Link: http://www.mediachance.com/digicam/index.html

Those look like pixel hot spots typical of some low light shots with digital cameras. Dunno why PS would be doing that. Do they show in other viewers besides PS? There's a hot spot fixer at this link, but it isn't very good.

I can't see them... time for me to calibrate the monitor again... Speaking of which, you likely need to run through adobe's monitor calibration again after loading a new version of photoshop...

Look closely. There are white and blue and red pixels in there.

That's from digital cameras that can't deal with low light conditions. I doubt PS introduced those, but PS might well show them. I see this in PS 5.5 as well but I don't see this in other image viewers. They're still there though. They can be changed one pixel at a time with the eyedropper and brush tool. The quality of the camera at low light has all the world to do with this. Now I'd be surprised to hear if these were flatbed scanned photos. Shouldn't happen with that.

I agree that some low light shots will show with adigital camera. However, the Blue & Red were not there last night. I swear they weren't. I have an image that I saved from the exact same copy that the above came from and it shows nothing. It does show in all viewers I have, PS6, PS7, ACDSEE, and Lviewpro. I tool it back to PS6 and cleamed up each dot. Took 2.5 hours. I will post that image in another thread. Wierd. Thanks all! Magick Michael

hmmm, well, this makes we wonder then if PS does introduce pixel problems. What format were you saving in? .psd and jpg compress a lot, but jpg distortion is not a single pixel thing, its a group of pixels.

They are there if I brighten things up...

I saved them in PSD but the funny thing is that the original noncompressed JPG (from the camera) had the same problem and it was never saved once, downloaded from the camera it was clean. That is what is so wierd. Oh well, PS6 works and I am sticking with it. MM

Try opening a good pic and saving in .bmp format and see what happens. I don't think bitmaps compress. There is ALWAYS data loss in compressions.

It's not on your older posts. Here I adjusted levels in order to emphasise anything. Nothing. Incompatability between jpeg encoder in camera, and jpeg decoder in PS7???

Well, if you see this as a PS6/7 issue then that's a kewl observation.

Hmmm, you might try asking retrocity, Photoshop Forum mod, too. He might be of help. ;-) (*

Wow..I've never seen anything even remotely like this under PS7 or any PS for that matter. Weird. -=>Donald

Take some pictures with the camera in a totally dark room, or with the lens cap on, at different zoom settings, shutter speeds, exposure settings, compression settings and at different CCD pixel resolutions...that way you should be able to see if you do have hot pixels in the CCD of the camera. I must admit that the blue "blotches" do look like compression artifacts to me though. Cheers

Ohhh, the "spots" also have JPEG artifacts around them, so if any of the images above are original images then the spots were created within the camera. Cheers

"Try opening a good pic and saving in .bmp format and see what happens. I don't think bitmaps compress. There is ALWAYS data loss in compressions" not true - some image formats use what is called lossless compress - compression that does not involve data loss. for example, lzw compression in the .tif format. i think .png is lossless as well, and gives better compression than .tif