This is really weird. I have digital photos a few years old . . .?

and some of the whiter areas, like clouds or sky, have bleached (?) to a blue shade? How the heck can pixels change their color over time? It's all 1's and 0's, right?This is really weird. I have digital photos a few years old . . .?
Jpegs can degrade, but not from time. If you save a jpeg multiple times it can start to degrade the compression, and you will get Jpeg Artifacts. This is not to be confused with just opening the jpeg and viewing it, that will not do anything to the jpeg unless you saved it.



If you've changed hard drives a lot or have done a lot of editting of the photos a little at a time, saving every time, you will get degradation.



But to be honest, most photo editting software these days do not degrade the jpegs like older software did.



One other thing could be the color space of those old files. If they are something other than Adobe RGB or sRGB they may display differently. All of the original info is probably still there, it's just that your computer may not know how to display a different color space properly. I'm not an expert on this though.



I do also think it's the calibration of the monitor, just thought I would give some alternatives.This is really weird. I have digital photos a few years old . . .?
Have you changed monitors on your computer?



If you did or not, monitors have to be calibrated from time to time. Those of us who do this professionally, calibrate CRT monitors every week, LCD's every month. And we always calibrate the monitor just before we start a new photo project
someone has fiddled with it? your screen is on the way out? sorry thats all i got, 0s and 1s dont change by themselfs im sure
I don't know about no photos but I do know when you fly it is always blue side up.



He's got the monitor bluuuuuuuueeeeeeees.