Edited photos in GIMP 2.8 and they won't show on SD card

[Ross]

OK, so for a part of my photography coursework at school, I had to edit some photographs. I had the photographs and after some basic editing (Selective color and rotating/flipping), I exported them to my desktop as .jgp's. I then transferred them to my SD card which was already connected to my laptop. I could see them on the preview on the SD card when the SD card was in my laptop but when I put the SD card back in my Sanyo digital camera, it come up with a voice message that says "No image recorded" and a text message that says "No image".

So once again, I call on my friends at GTPlanet to help me solve this issue. Any help would be much appreciated.

 

[Solo]

This may be due to the rewriting of the .jpg image not being recognised by the camera. I have found this before after editing .RAW images and saving them as .jpg and them not being recognised by the camera I took them on.

Also if you have not saved them into the filing system that your camera creates when saving images they may not be recognised as they could be outside what it reads? I'm not entirely sure about that but it could be the issue.

 

[wfooshee]

The camera may actually be looking at the EXIF data, too, to determine if the file "belongs" to it.

The camera is not a general file viewer, I've seen that situation several times. Basically, there's no reason at all to put an edited file back into the camera.

 

[Ross]

Right, I have got it sorted now, I went to Boots to get them printed out. They showed up on their machine but not on my camera.

This may be due to the rewriting of the .jpg image not being recognised by the camera. I have found this before after editing .RAW images and saving them as .jpg and them not being recognised by the camera I took them on.

Also if you have not saved them into the filing system that your camera creates when saving images they may not be recognised as they could be outside what it reads? I'm not entirely sure about that but it could be the issue.

The camera may actually be looking at the EXIF data, too, to determine if the file "belongs" to it.

The camera is not a general file viewer, I've seen that situation several times. Basically, there's no reason at all to put an edited file back into the camera.

Thank you to both of you and yes I think it was because the EXIF data was missing. I have them printed out now and I shall mount them tomorrow.

 

[wfooshee]

Well, the EXIF thing is just a guess, but something about the file is different enough from the camera-produced file that the camera can't be bothered to sort it out.

 

[Ross]

Yeah, I'm guessing that's what happened anyway. Now I'll get a high grade for my assignment hopefully. I would have used photoshop but I still need to learn how to use that.

 

[Azuremen]

Kind of course to see how the spot coloring goes over with a photo instructor, as it is decent peeve of mine and many professionals I know. It is just a basic digital photography class or what?

 

[Ross]

Yes, it's a GCSE Art Photography class. The theme that we were doing was structures and I decided to do time structures so I did seasons. I took a photograph of something that represented each season and flipped and spot colored them.

 

[Sprite]

It could have been that your camera uses a root system (most do) so instead of being on the SD they might have been something like

.../DCMI/image_0001.jpg

If they aren't put back into the same file system your camera might pic them up. Seeing as you have now got it sorted it's a moot point.

 

[Ross]

Yes it does have that. And yeah they were in a /DCMI folder. I'll bear all of this in mind for next time which'll probably be in a few months.