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From: joec@Morgan.COM (Joe Collins)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: gif2bmp - no colors after conversion
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Date: 30 Jan 91 16:58:44 GMT
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Organization: Morgan Stanley & Co. NY, NY
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I have run GIF2BMP on some nice (256 color) GIF files. I then told
3.0 WINDOWS to use them as wallpaper and it came up in grey scale!

Likewise, in PAINTBRUSH my 9 yr old son has saved some images he
created into .bmp files only to reload them and see the colors
gone. We have since discovered PCX, to his satisfaction.

I guess I'm just uninformed on what BMP is, does and why its B/W
and not color. Is there any way to have color in BMP files?

I was hoping my wallpaper would have been in nice colors, even if
it MUST be 16 colors instead of 256 colors.

Can someone enlighten me or if its a case of RTFM, which one?

Many thanks!

joec@morgan.com