Why are some images on my computer distorted while it isn't on other computers?

Anonymous
2012-07-25T09:41:02+00:00

Image Example:http://images.wikia.com/smurfs/images/d/dd/Movie_Clumsy.png

This is one of the images that appears "distorted" on my computer screen. If by "distorted", I mean the colors are somewhat unnatural and leaked... kinda like a painting of some sort...

All of my computer equipments are working properly, and my screen doesn't show any distorted images except for some images like that given example on top.

I have also updated my NVIDIA driver to the latest version and even reinstall it just to make sure!

I am not so sure about this but... I think only PNG formats are distorted... but that is still unconfirmed...

Anyway, please help! Thank You!

Windows for home | Previous Windows versions | Music, photos, and video

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Anonymous
2012-08-10T08:36:54+00:00

I have found out that my web provider is compressing images on the net for faster browsing.

And to view and download web images successfully, I have found an alternative.

I simply download a "User Agent Switcher" add-on for Firefox and switched to "Googlebot 2.1". After that all images that were wrong on the net went right.

I am only posting this in case some other people are also experiencing my problem.

Thank you to the following for their efforts:

Vinod N

James.Burgess

And thank you Dissed for putting the most efforts in posting!

Again, Thanks guys!

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  1. Anonymous
    2012-07-26T13:43:20+00:00

    Not sure what could be happening on your end,

    The pic looks normal I suppose ?

    I suppose checking your dpi settings and make sure your using the recommended resolution for your monitor,

    Is this a laptop or desktop ?

    Desktop.

    DPI? How do I check that?

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  2. Anonymous
    2012-07-26T13:05:39+00:00

    Not sure what could be happening on your end,

    The pic looks normal I suppose ?

    I suppose checking your dpi settings and make sure your using the recommended resolution for your monitor,

    Is this a laptop or desktop ?

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  3. Anonymous
    2012-07-26T11:21:57+00:00

    Right click the distorted file and point at Open with, and click on Paint,

    Are they still looking distorted ?

    What photo editing/ viewer software/ program are you using ?

    Here is one I'm preferring,

    http://picasa.google.com/

    Using paint, the image is still distorted.

    I am using Windows Photo Viewer. I tried also using Adobe Photoshop.

    I opened this image in Internet Explorer 9, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, and Opera, but it's still the same...still distorted...

    I downloaded your suggested program, Picasa, but still the same distorted image appears...

    Any other suggestions?

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  4. Anonymous
    2012-07-25T17:11:50+00:00

    Right click the distorted file and point at Open with, and click on Paint,

    Are they still looking distorted ?

    What photo editing/ viewer software/ program are you using ?

    Here is one I'm preferring,

    http://picasa.google.com/

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