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Hi All

Just wondering if anyone else has experienced this:

I'm using PSCS3 and running an action which does the following:

- Converts the 16 bit RAW file into 8 bit
- Save As into JPG - high quality (12)
- into specific folders in the desired effect (sepia, colour, etc)

But when I look at the images in Windows, they are listed as GIF's.

After just finishing the processing of a whole wedding. I noticed this (yes, I know the heart attack I experienced was due to my own stupidity of not having noticed this before I had processed hundreds of images but at least I am admitting it!)

But then when I checked the images, the sizes are JPG sized, the quality is that of JPG, not GIF, and when opened in PSCS3 again, they are listed as JPG files. It is a bit of a concern and a problem I would like to fix up asap, fully realising that it may well be due to something I have inadvertently done.

Please? .... Any ideas from anyone? ...

I know that it may sound obvious but have you checked your action?

Sounds like your action is using the wrong suffix for the filenames. If you dont want to re-run your action, and you are comfortable with a command prompt, you could always go to one of the directories and try:

rename *.gif *.jpg

Then see how windows goes with identifying them.

Ant.

Many thanks for your replies & pm's - I really appreciate them.

Yes, I definitely checked the actions and it was correct.

In the meantime of puzzling over this, I discovered the following:

- in Windows, when I went into the Properties of the particular image and changed it to "Windows Picture and Fax Viewer", it suddenly changed the extension for ALL the images to .... JPG!

- but when they are JPG's, they dont seem to load up as quickly for Previewing, as they do as GIF's, so I'm leaving them as GIF's until I am ready to hand them over to the client.

Wierd, huh? Now the puzzling (and panicking) is over, I'm just curious ... would anyone have any ideas as to WHY this would occur?

Many sincere thanks for your help!