Custom Portraits Dark. How to fix?

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I have been making and using custom portraits for several of my games but I have encountered a strange minor issue I would like to know how to fix. The custom portraits look fine for the race portrait but the trade portraits always look dark. I made the trade portraits in photoshop using the race portrait as the base and the look fine outside the game but in-game the trade portraits look dark. Not enough to stop playing but dark enough to be distracting. I was wondering if it had something to do with the png setings when you save the image or is there something else I am missing?
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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Get a photobucket account, upload it there, and post a link of it on this thread.
Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Okay here it is.

I am thinking I did something wrong in photoshop because the Tremo's original looks fine both in game and out. I apologize for not croping them but I only have paint here and can't seem to find a crop tool.

WWW Link

(Edit I don't know why the links aren't working but here is the irl.)
http://s5.photobucket.com/albums/y167/windwolf7/GC2%20Pics/?action=view¤t=fanvgrtsgcdarkportait-OriginalPortr.jpg

but if you view the trade I made, it looks fine unopened...

WWW Link

(Edit I don't know why the links aren't working but here is the irl.)
http://s5.photobucket.com/albums/y167/windwolf7/GC2%20Pics/?action=view¤t=fanvgrtsgcdarkportait-ModifiedTrade.jpg

but looks dark when opened in game or out.

WWW Link

(Edit I don't know why the links aren't working but here is the irl.)
http://s5.photobucket.com/albums/y167/windwolf7/GC2%20Pics/?action=view¤t=fanvgrtsgcdarkportait-FirstContact.jpg
It looks fine in photoshop but as you can see it is dark when open by anything else.

Any ideas. I must have saved a setting wrong somewhere.
Also, how would I upload images straight to the post?
Reply #5 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
It seems I can't figure out photbucket so here is the link to album directly;
http://s5.photobucket.com/albums/y167/windwolf7/GC2%20Pics/