iphone 4 iOS 5 pics black in iPhoto but ok in Preview

Sent black photos to iPhoto trash, emptied trash to eliminate photo file from my computer. Rebuilding library did not bring back any photos. After I rebooted, then rebuilt, I plugged my iPhone back in and uploaded all my photos again except for the duplicates that were already not black. If you don't have the originals on your phone still, I don't know how you could go about fixing the current black photos of which you don't have the originals for. Hope that helps.

Just want to add that this happened again with latest OSX Lion and iPhoto updates (as of May 2012).

I noticed the issue as Photo Stream images were appearing black in iPhoto.

A reboot corrected it and the photos imported correctly directly from my iPhone, however certain Photo Stream images are still black...

Yep. It's also reoccurred on our box after a while. This is really annoying.

I'm not the most technical of person but I have found an easier work around than removing from the iphoto folder or rotating the image but unfortunately not a solution.

I only have the black image problem for portrait shots and am running OSX 10.7.4 and iPhoto 9.3. I shoot RAW (nef as I am a Nikon Man) and all I done was highlight the black thumbnails select photo>reprocess raw (I guess this will work for JPEGs and revert to original).

Still looking for a full solution and hope this helps for now.

T

"Reprocess Raw" is not available as an option when I look in the "Photos" menu-probably because I'm not using RAW format. The "Revert to Original" option is under the "Edit" button, but only becomes available once the picture has been edited, which (whether using "Adjust" or rotating the photo) is what we have been doing to get rid of the black thumbnails.

The oddest thing we've found is that this is only occurring on my wife's Macbook AIR and not on my Macbook Pro - despite the fact that we're sharing all the same photos.

So theres still no fix for this? Mine started out with the odd photo here and there black (thumbs and photos), rotating would fix it (pita), I'm now noticing its happening too at least 2/3 of my imported photos and its really bugging me, thats ln landscape and portrait equally.

I'm trying picasa out for a while as i cant afford to stuff around with iphoto any longer.

Definitely an iphoto problem, picasa is fine.

What i done, which is a bit boring but worked for me. i opened iphoto, clicked edit button, show in library,cmd R (to rotate 360 o), clicked next arrow under shift key and hey presto they are ok. For the tome being will have to suffer like this tried everthing else.

What you did was create a modified version of the photo. If you do a Resort to Original I believe it will revert back to the blank window. Give it a try on one of them. You can still use that method but just realize you're working with a modified version from then on and can lose if if you do use the Revert to Original feature on it.

here is a simple work around, use Picasa. I have tried to fix this and have lost 100's of pictures of my 5 year old. It seems like Apple software is starting to become a joke of a business.

http://blog.scoopz.com/2010/09/11/iphone-camera-roll-thumbnails-corrupt-shows-bl ack-boxes-fix/