Thats one thing I need to talk to you about Tony. Several logos have been uploaded lately that come though in a format that only MS Paint can open.

I know very little about the actual file format of the BMP files. One of the reasons I was able to get my logo editor done so easily is because Visual Basic handles all the BMP import/export stuff natively and I don't need to muck about with the bits of the image or its header. So I might not be much help.

But here are a few possible guesses, let me know if these are helpful:

- Is it a color depth/palette problem? Probably not since you said Photoshop chokes on them as well, and it should handle any palette or color depth.

- Are these files accidentally RLE compressed? "Run Length Encoding compression" is a save option in some paint applications. Just for the heck of it, try renaming one of these files to *.RLE before trying to open them in photoshop.

- Are these files accidentally saved in OS/2 bitmap format? This is different from the Windows bitmap format, but carries the same file extension.

- Are these files saved as DIB bitmaps instead of regular bitmaps? I think that DIB (Device Independent Bitmap) is a different format than the standard BMP.

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Tony Fabris