Saving a picture.

Hi,

I was just wondering if anyone can tell me how I can save a picture at a certain colour depth?

because I need to save a bitmap with the colour depth 256 colours, but the savepicture function doesn't let you choose what colour depth to save at.

thanx.

Try loading it into Photoshop.

:p

Hi thanx for replying, but I need to know how to do it with code, I can't rely on the user having a program like photoshop because alot of people don't.

I know. I was being sarcastic. Sorry. :)

The use SavePicture method to save a picture. But I think it only saves in whatever depth your screen is.

yeah I know it only saves in your screens colour depth its a pity though, does anyone know of an active x control or something that lets you set the colour depth to 256?.

You could try searching http://www.download.com for "OCX", "ActiveX" and other relevant things...

There's loads of ActiveX stuff on there. You might find the odd freeware gem from time to time, but a lot of it is shareware. :(

Yes but I think there's an option there where you can select what type of software you want. (freeware, demo, shareware etc.)