Displaying Color Bitmap Images In Dialogs

[qedusa]

OK, I've searched the archives and only found two questions regarding same subject - none with a response.
I'm trying to display a color bitmap in a dialog. I can do this OK from a resource BUT Visual C++ changes the image to just 16 colors!!! It looks terrible!

Someone must know how to do this otherwise how would you put a nice start-up screen in an application?

Any help or pointers would be appreciated.

 

[qedusa]

For anyone who's curious, I discovered a somewhat acceptable answer to this problem. Instead of 'right-clicking' the bitmap resource to alter properties, actually choose 'Properties' from the 'View' menu. This gives the extra options needed to obtain up to 256 colors.
However, note that 256 colors is the maximum here. I would be interested to know if more colors can be displayed.