Hello, this is Mike again, development lead for Online Photo Filer team. 

Today I want to talk about Bitmaps (images that normally end in .bmp), and some of their current limitations in our product.  There are two parts of the Online Photo Filer that do not accept bitmaps: the flash slideshow and the photo store.

For the photo store, our photo development partner does not support bitmap images.  Likewise, Flash  components also have trouble displaying bitmap images.  In order for these to features to work properly, they need Jpeg images (normally ending in .jpg or .jpeg).

Converting a bitmap to a Jpeg should be a feature avaialable in any photo editing program.  If you are running Windows, you can just use Paint.  Open your bitmap in Paint, choose File/Save As... and save the image as a Jpeg format.  Then you can upload the Jpeg version to your Online Photo Filer site and it will show properly in the
slideshow and also allow you to develop it through the photo store.

I am pleased to say that we are working on a feature to allow you to convert your original uploaded bitmaps to Jpeg format after they have been uploaded.  This will make it a lot easier in the future to handle this directly from within your Online Photo Filer account.
 
Mike