Why won't my background pic work?

[Andreas]

I completed the tutorial and think i understand how most things work. I made the background for the tutorial in paint, and it worked fine, but when i used photoshop to make a better looking background, the background-screen is black. The resolution is 640x400 and the colour is 16-bit both on the pic and in the game so i can't figure out why it isn't working.

/Andreas

[Kweepa]

Have you opened the correct room in the editor?
Have you reloaded the background image?
What format are you using for the image? It's difficult to make a 16 bit (rather than 32 bit) image in Photoshop.

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Its strange but I had the same problem the other day, when tryinf to load in a background in my 32 bit 640*480 game the scrren where the background should be went kind of purple.

I think it was because MY PC didn't have enough memory at that moment, so i restarted and tried again and it worked

So try that, if not try changing the game to 32 bit and see if it works.

[Scorpiorus]

The resolution is 640x400 and the colour is 16-bit both on the pic and in the game so i can't figure out why it isn't working.

If you are trying to import a 16bit bitmap it wouldn't work. Save it as 24bit bitmap instead.