I also get that occasionally. Try closing SS6 and restarting it.

When I first started using SKS6 I had your problem occasionally, but it hasn't done it for a while. Go into PSP7 and re save the file. It's probably a bug in 6. Try Support, maybe they can give you a better answer.

Good luck

Just an idea, try saving as PNG to a location, then re import the file. Hope this helps, I think SKS6 gets confused, not sure.

I am having a similar problem in SKS6 also, but I am using PaintShop Pro XI. There are several areas in SKS6 that when I go to open the image for editing, PaintShop Pro starts to open, but then it just closes. I have already reported this to Stardock personnel, so hopefully my issue will get fixed soon and possibly even resolve this issue.

You got what I meant right. Sorry your having this problem, I had this problem too but it disappeared after a while. Wish I could figure out or remember what I did. All is good for me now , so there is hope.

they are bmp and tga formats

thanks, I do appreciate your help. and yes, I open them directly from the wb directory that I am working on out of paint shop pro

Not only that, but is is really irritating when you have tree view set to show, and click "Apply" and the entire background area of the tree area changes from the default blue to whatever color is set as the window color in the theme. Super hard to see white text on white! This only occurs in Windows XP.

Ok it sounds like you are trying to open a indexed file format. If in PSP when you save as PNG it is still indexed doing this. Try saving to a flat format to unindex the file by saving as a Jpeg image. Then you will need to open the image again and remove whatever background format is added via the Jpeg and then save as a PNG.
Sounds wild right. But I'm fairly sure this is the problem. You will find this with PSP a lot for it opens the file no matter what. But it does not remove the indexing without adding a flat format as with saving to a Jpeg. Bit-map can also be used. But I find a lot of bit-map images with encoding which can cause other problems.

If you want you can send me a sample file and I'll see what else may be the cause.
You know how to get in touch Goldwing - do so if you need help with this.

Also with bitmaps and/or TGA with SKS6 a lot of times you cannot import correctly or that at all. They have to be placed in the folder and then selected as the image to be used for whatever region. There are a few parts/regions that require this option of placing of the images. For many good reasons this a required to make the whole machine work correctly. I know that is hard to understand. But actually placement is a good trick with the right images.

What I am trying to do is directly open from within SKS6 and image that is already in use in an area discussed above, Paint Shop Pro starts to open, and then closes. Working around the problem I already know how to do, I just open and edit the image directly in the themes folder, which means it does not have and indexed file format problems. I would just like to see SKS6 fixed.

pretty amazing and confuses the issue to some degree. I really don't know what the issues actually are however I don't think it is the images themselves. I've attempting open these images from other blinds and have the same result, "unable to open the file". I had this issue with a couple of additional images when I was using SS5 but not with any of the standard images.

So, if I could open these images with a previous version of skin studio and after updated skin studio I am unable to do so, I think the problem lies with skin studio.



could you expand on what an indexed file format is and how it fits into the overall picture.

Thank you for your help, the solution works perfectly!

Shelby, "your the man" + 1 for you.