help me open pictures....
 

I have a bunch of xxx pics I saved from the early days of the TFP....I can't get them to open,they have .art as the end thing,like .jpg...what program will open thes pics?

thanks Bobby......reply here or pm me xoxoxoo

here is an example .......... 2tanbutts.art

Did you use the American Online software to download them?

ART image file format - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Try using the AOL picture viewer to open them (and then save them as jpeg).

If bobby saved them they must be good.

I hope you can find a place to host them bobby and repost them.

What happens if you simply rename them as .jpg?

Like Laserth stated, you could right click on the picture and choose rename and if you see the file extension of .art, change it to .jpg or .gif . It will probably ask you "are you sure you want to change the extension, it might not work later", choose yes. If that works, then you are good to go.

Yeah, I'm not so sure about that from what I read in the Wiki link above. They're highly compressed in a proprietary format if they are indeed AOL .art files. IE can't even open them anymore. They will likely need to be converted using the AOL picture viewer.

However, I will say it's worth a try. It might be quicker to just rename them with .jpg.

renaming a file doesn't change the file structure only the file label

Yeah - that's an old AOL format. If renaming the files won't work or you don't have the AOL viewer to do a "save as," just Google and download an image converter software. Graphic Workshop Professional is an old one I used to use to show my xxx image files as a slideshow years before Windows started doing it (and videos became so easy to find and download).
Haven't used it in years, but they have some good, free software.