Trying to post my friend's art photos on Web.

First he sent me copies of the pics which i scanned. The colors were all wrong.

Then he burned? them, copied them to a silver disc and sent them.
He uses a newer Mac, I use a 5 yr oldpc 533hz, Wimn 98, 2nd ed. .

Only a few of the pics out of 25 opened.

Is my newbie friend copying incorrectly or is the difference in OS's making the problem.

Also, will the colors from pics saved to disc be better than bad ones I scanned. Should he send them as jpegs or gifs or ?

ps Dwight thanks for the Webopdiea! At long last i know what jpeg, raw, pop, smtp mean.

Also, hope you're healthy besides generous and wise.
Tried to mail this to your e-mail. Mail returned.

"ps Dwight thanks for the Webopdiea! At long last i know what jpeg, raw, pop, smtp mean. stanbee

Webopedia You're very welcome!

Tried to mail this to your e-mail. Mail returned." stanbee I did get your email message.

"First he sent me copies of the pics which i scanned. The colors were all wrong." stanbee

I assume he sent you the images on paper, which you scanned. The quality of the scanned image is dependent upon the settings the scanner is set too. Think of this like it was a copier. You can adjust the toner level to increase or decrease the print. You can do the same thing with a scanned image.

An image set to 72 dots per inch (dpi) will look fine on the screen, but will not print very well. As you said, the images are to be used on the Web. Depending upon your scanner, you may do better by scanning at a high dpi, and/or adjusting the color scan wheel.

This page may be helpful: http://www.guides.sk/scantips2/

“Then he burned? them, copied them to a silver disc and sent them.
He uses a newer Mac, I use a 5 yr oldpc 533hz, Wimn 98, 2nd ed. .

Only a few of the pics out of 25 opened.” stanbee

Often, a person using a MAC will send a file to a Windows user and forget to add the file extension for the file type. For instance, if the file than he burned to a CD was a .jpeg (.jpg) image type, but he failed to add the 3 or 4 characters following period mark, Windows will not know what to do with the file. A MAC doesn’t use the file extensions like Windows does, so they don’t think of it. If you will right click on the file and choose “Save Target As” (or similar language) and then name the file with the .jpg or .jpeg file extension, they might open. If the files are a .gif image, add the .gif extension. If a .tif image, add the .tif extension, and so forth.

If you can get some more information from you friend about the files and where they came from you might be able to figure out the image file type. When the file is saved to your computer with a file extension and it still won’t open, you can right click on the file and choose “Rename” and try another image file extension. If the images were from a camera, knowing what camera type he used may help. If he used a graphic program on his MAC, find out what the program is named.

Sorry this took so long to respond to you.

Dwight