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In QGIS I used the Georeferencer on a jpg image I had prepared in Gimp. But when I load the resulting tiff image into my QGIS project it is invisible, even though an image viewing program can show it perfectly well. I used exactly the same method to georeference a jpg image of an OS sheet covering the same area, and that shows up perfectly well in QGIS.

Why is my second layer invisible?

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    Can you add more information about the exact steps you are taking to produce this issue?
    – alphabetasoup
    Commented Jan 9, 2016 at 21:48
  • Try gdalinfo your_geotiff from the command line to check georeference data, try to zoom the layer extent.
    – Zoltan
    Commented Jan 10, 2016 at 15:25
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    The advice about gdalinfo is helpful for the future, but meanwhile I found a solution - or rather a work-around - to my problem. Although I set the SRS correctly in the Transformation Settings dialogue of the Georeferencer, when I look in the properties for the new layer in QGIS, the CRS is wrong. By correcting it in the Properties dialogue, the problem disappears - i.e. the layer does appear! I'm using QGIS 2.8.2 on Ubuntu Linux 12.04. Thanks for you help.
    – David Sumbler
    Commented Jan 11, 2016 at 11:02
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    I right-clicked the layer, chose "Set Layer CRS", set it to EPSG:3857, and bang! it showed up. The rest of my project is in EPSG:32719 (a UTM projection). Maybe there's some kind of issue with georeferencing in a UTM projection. Someone else will have to explain why this happens.
    – Erik Marsh
    Commented Sep 22, 2017 at 18:40
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    I had the same issue in qgis 3.8 and also qgis 3.16.9 and 3.20.1 on windows. In the end, the layer appeared after switching between different projections as @ErikMarsh wrote.
    – BoZenKhaa
    Commented Aug 1, 2021 at 22:23

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