I just converted the image from a pre-exsiting collage of images. The photos are for a user-interface, where buttons are located next to the pictures. It seems to be an issue with image conversion and not labview, as the image provided by NI worked fine in mapping and drawing the pixmap. As a fix, I converted my image to grayscale and am able to display it in B&W, but I'm still interesting in find a way to convert it correctly. Thus far I've tried Photoshop (CS1), Paint (XP) and Matlab. All three result in the same...that is, I think only the blue layer is being mapped (red and green info. is lost).