losing color in pictures after resizing

After the successful Win XP SP3 upgrade I have the following problem:
When I resize pictures with IrfanView, I still can see the photos with
colors. After saving and reopening the same photo, the picture has no colors.

Alois wrote:
> After the successful Win XP SP3 upgrade I have the following
> problem:
> When I resize pictures with IrfanView, I still can see the photos
> with colors. After saving and reopening the same photo, the
> picture has no colors.

That is an IrfanView setting.

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"Shenan Stanley" wrote:

> Alois wrote:
> > After the successful Win XP SP3 upgrade I have the following
> > problem:
> > When I resize pictures with IrfanView, I still can see the photos
> > with colors. After saving and reopening the same photo, the
> > picture has no colors.
>
> That is an IrfanView setting.
>
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> Shenan Stanley
> MS-MVP
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>
>
> Shenan,
Thanks for the response. Can you please be more specific where to look for.
IrfanView was and is the latest version (4.1). No changes required before
the SP3 update - why now.
Any is there an alternative program to IrfanView with no cost
Alois

Alois wrote:
> After the successful Win XP SP3 upgrade I have the following
> problem:
> When I resize pictures with IrfanView, I still can see the photos
> with colors. After saving and reopening the same photo, the
> picture has no colors.

Shenan Stanley wrote:
> That is an IrfanView setting.

Alois wrote:
> Thanks for the response. Can you please be more specific where to
> look for. IrfanView was and is the latest version (4.1). No
> changes required before the SP3 update - why now.
> Any is there an alternative program to IrfanView with no cost

Many alternatives. IrfanView should work fine as long as you are willing to
read up on its settings and such and go to the IrfanView forums when you
have issues with IrfanView...

- Are you opeing the picture *in* IrfanView both times - viewing it in
IrfanView before you resize it and viewing it in IrfanView after you resize
it?

- If you choose to open the picture in something other than IrfanView
(Windows Fax & Picture Viewer, Paint, etc) - does it show correctly?

- If you open IrfanView and select "Options" --> "Properties" -->
"JPG/PCD/GIF" tab --> is the second checkbox checked? ("Load as grayscale
(Please REMEMBER when you activate this option!)") -- I am not making up
what the checkbox says - I guess it happened so often, they changed the text
there. hah

- Are you utilizing IrfanView for more than resizing pictures? Did you know
with a plugin (PowerToy) you could resize pictures in Windows XP without
third party products?
http://www.maximumpcguides.com/windo...image-resizer/

Picasa is a good free program with a way to 'backup' the pictures (or share
them) on the web using Google.

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