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Encyclopedia: Windows and OS/2 bitmap

Images are generally stored with a color depth of 2 (1-bit), 16 (4-bit), 256 (8-bit), 65,536 (16-bit), or 16.7 million (24-bit) colors (the bits represent the bits per pixel). 8-bit images can also be greyscale instead of indexed color. An alpha channel (for transparency) may be stored in a separate file, where it is similar to a greyscale image. A 32-bit version with integrated alpha channel has been introduced with Windows XP and is used within its logon and theme system; it has yet to gain wide support in image editing software but has been supported in Adobe Photoshop since version 7 and Macromedia Flash since version MX 2004.

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	(Chinese)	BMP
	(Japanese)	Windows bitmap
	(German)	Windows Bitmap
	(Spanish)	Windows bitmap
	(French)	Windows bitmap
	(Italian)	Windows bitmap