Hi Ed, I'm sorry but not totally understanding? If the image is loaded directly into TImage it looks find while in the Delph IDE but if you load a picture while the Exe is running you get image problems?
Cheers, Charlie ----- Original Message ----- From: edsynergy To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2007 1:52 AM Subject: [delphi-en] Use of Timage When I load a bitmap I am using as the background for a form using the ide its perfect.However what I really want to do is this Image.Picture.Bitmap.LoadFromFile(FileName) ; This loads the bitmap but the images dithered/smudged/corrupted in some way Is there a way around this problem / are there other controls out there that do it better Best wishes Ed. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

