I realize this thread is over a decade old but it came up in a Google search since I actually have this exact issue. Here's the interesting insight that I can give to my instance. I attend a lot of pop culture cons and I scan in images I have signed at these shows so I know what I have and so I don't make the mistake of purchasing duplicate images. For the longest time, I've used Epson scanners to scan, resize, crop and save as .jpg files. I always scan as .tif since it provides a better original to work from. I've used Paint.net for eons as part of my workflow and never had any issues. I recently purchased an HP product that can scan 11x17 images and this is when the error began. Once I open the .tif file and clean it up, I know it's going to fail as soon as I change the file extension to .jpg and the preview window comes up blank and states there's an error. I can perform the suggested steps of copying it over to a new image and then saving it out from there with no issues. I just thought I 'd throw in how I've run into this issue more than 10 years after the original poster and that the HP scan seems to be creating the erroneous data.
Error resaving .tif as .jpg
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I realize this thread is over a decade old but it came up in a Google search since I actually have this exact issue. Here's the interesting insight that I can give to my instance. I attend a lot of pop culture cons and I scan in images I have signed at these shows so I know what I have and so I don't make the mistake of purchasing duplicate images. For the longest time, I've used Epson scanners to scan, resize, crop and save as .jpg files. I always scan as .tif since it provides a better original to work from. I've used Paint.net for eons as part of my workflow and never had any issues. I recently purchased an HP product that can scan 11x17 images and this is when the error began. Once I open the .tif file and clean it up, I know it's going to fail as soon as I change the file extension to .jpg and the preview window comes up blank and states there's an error. I can perform the suggested steps of copying it over to a new image and then saving it out from there with no issues. I just thought I 'd throw in how I've run into this issue more than 10 years after the original poster and that the HP scan seems to be creating the erroneous data.
Thanks,
Len