Does anyone know why when you try to copy-paste an 8-bit image from photoshop into visual studio 8 bit icon edit window more than half of the pixels get lost? I was setting up a 32x32 pixel icon but could not get the original image to copy over. The original image was just some dumb 256 color cartoon.

I've been trying to do this for hours and it works for 24 bit but not 8 bit which is suppose to be 256 color palette. I've even tried opening a native ico file from visual studio into photoshop and copy its color table into a file. Then load the color table for the image I want to copy-paste in photoshop, but I swear it seems to only work 10 percent of the time. Whats even weirder is that rotating the icon image in VS restores the image!

I tried to create like a test slide with primary colors striped across the image. Even then I have trouble getting it to look proper.

Is this a bug? Should I reinstall VS?

Thanks.

Hi davidm71,

What's the type of the Image you are editing in the Visual Studio? Icon or bitmap or others. It seems the 32*32 bitmap only support 4 bit image. Other types of image support higher bit. Such as bitmap can support 1,4,8,24,32 bit. You can set the Colors Property in the PropertyGrid.

Best regards,
Bruce Zhou

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