Importing Images

[4l73r_3g0]

Not sure if this is the right forum, but it struck me as better than 'resources'. Anyway.

I'm working with the GIMP, and making a faceset for the main characters of my game. 192x192, individual faces are 48x48, blah blah blah the problem is once I save/export it as a PNG I can't import it; invalid colour depth. I know what this means, and have tried to save it as a 256 BMP but I can't find the right save option. I also tried MS Paint, but the distortion is horrid.

Does anyone know of a good (easy) way of making their files importable without losing too much quality? I understand that there's going to be some, but all things considered, I'd prefer anything over what Paint is giving me.

[Dragonium]

1) Download IrfanView from www.irfanview.com
2) Use IrfanView to decrease the colours to 256 Colours and save it as a PNG.
3)
4) Profit!

[4l73r_3g0]

Beautiful. Thanks, dude.