marvinf77

Thanks for the prompt reply. Combination of compression and loss of information; somehow I became absent-minded to the obvious. :oops: Thanks for not being harsh on an absent-mind.

Why does my 28kb jpg become 100kb when I crop and reduce to selection and choose lossless compression when I save it?

Ok. I don't know either. Did you use Photoshop CS3 to view the image? I used Microsoft Digital Image Starter Edition 2006 to view it "correctly" incorrectly myself. I only asked if you used PS CS3 in case of some misunderstanding that could help you (the guy that obviously has a clue). By the looks of it what you said still remains true none the less. Thanks for the help, sorry I couldn't be of more assitance I'm glad to hear/read that it's not paint.net. Keep up the great work.

Thanks RickBrewster for moving this topic to its appropriate place and answering the way you did. I've installed the plug-in and it made the image viewable/workable inside of paint.net. I've never thought about how a game renders a screenshot so for me to even consider offering what program produced the tga I can only add that X3 Reunion is the title of the game that I used the Screenshot Key while inside of the game itself. Thanks for the help. SABROWN100 I appreciate your consideration and conversion of the file as an attempt to help. I was however trying to work with the file in it's exisiting format while also trying to learn what was hindering paint.net from allowing me to view it. With the Alpha Layer/s set to zero it did not occur to me to look for the plugin that RickBrewster introduced me too. Thanks to you too.

I can't veiw my tga screenshots nor edit them with paint.net. When Media Center opens the tga with my default editor (paint.net) nothing appears to open in paint.net besides an empty graphic. The following file is a screenshot that I can't see or edit with paint.net http://www.marvinf.com/images/screen01.tga. I can see this tga with Microsoft Digital Starter Edition 2006 but I can't see it with Windows Picture and Fax Viewer nor edit or see it with paint.net. Trivially, I've managed to extract one of the games dds files to see if I could see one of them with paint.net and I could. Please help me understand what I need to do in order to be able to see and edit these tga's with paint.net. I'm using v 3.31 of paint.net, default settings and install.