>using the 1.4 version of the compiled python with tk and pil if you can, get a more recent version! > im = Image.open(infile) > print im.format, "%dx%d" % im.size, im.mode > im.save(outfile, ") PIL usually avoids implicit mode conversions; in this case, you have to spell it out yourself: im.convert("RGB").save(outfile) Cheers /F fredrik@pythonware.com http://www.pythonware.com