Weird Little Glitch When Editing CS Sprites

I was editing some CS sprites in MS paint (horray for being cheap) and when I opened up the game all the colors were in gray-scale.

What did I do wrong?

 

Ms paint fucks up the colors in 16 and or 256 color bmp and , it's best to save as a 24 bit bmp, or use another program like paint.net (which is free)

 

GraphicsGale recently became freeware, so I'd reccomend using that.

 

Ms paint fucks up the colors in 16 and or 256 color bmp and , it's best to save as a 24 bit bmp, or use another program like paint.net (which is free)

Ahhh. Well now I feel dumb

 

You should probably just save it as a .PNG and then convert it to a 16 color .BMP in a better editor.

 

You should probably just save it as a .PNG and then convert it to a 16 color .BMP in a better editor.

why not just use the better editor in the first place

 

Good point. Personally I just prefer to use MS Paint first because the editor I use takes a bit longer to use sometimes depending on what i'm making.