Hi Todd, just my impression and feelings: 32 bit BMP is an oxymoron. MS has designed that format, but never managed to implement it. That's why they still have their ICO format, which is a color image and 2-bits mask. Instead of implementing full alpha-channel raster format, MS rather accommodated PNG format. So, for example, if you want to create Windows Vista compatible icon with alpha channel, you have to embed a PNG image into the "ico" file. In other words, you can create 32-bit BMP file, but you will hardly find a software capable of reading it. Pavel On Sun, 2014-08-03 at 14:03 -0400, Todd Marshall wrote: > To add to my question thread myself; I can load the file into Paint, but if > I try to save it, Paint says '24 bit' only (has no 32 bit option) and if I > save that, it's the same size. If I save from Gimp to 24 bit it's 15K. If > I save from Gimp to 32 bit it's 20K. so whan I save in Paint, and it says > '24 bit' it saves to 20 K file. > > > > On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 1:58 PM, Todd Marshall <tamnt54@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > I know this is an old topic but I am having trouble, producing 24 bit .bmp > > files is good. If I add alpha layer and save (export) to .bmp, it's not > > good. (to save 32 bit pixel image) Windows API simply will not load the > > file. I've tried changing 'save colorspace information' and this does not > > work. > > Any fix? I guess I have to try a different program. Don't need any > > special functionality, just a 32 bit file that the windows api can load. > > (the LoadImage() api function in win32) > > Thanks! > > > _______________________________________________ > gimp-developer-list mailing list > List address: gimp-developer-list@xxxxxxxxx > List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list > List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-developer-list _______________________________________________ gimp-developer-list mailing list List address: gimp-developer-list@xxxxxxxxx List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-developer-list
