# Album Art resize action altering B&W embedded art
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/album-art-resize-action-altering-b-w-embedded-art/62295
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [October 5, 2023, 1:29am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/album-art-resize-action-altering-b-w-embedded-art/62295 "2023-10-05T01:29:22Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@JohnIV](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/JohnIV)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2023, 1:29am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/album-art-resize-action-altering-b-w-embedded-art/62295/1 "2023-10-05T01:29:22Z")
Hi, I have found that if I run my series of actions (which includes a 600x600 pixel resize) on a song that has embedded album art that is grayscale, the resize algorithm will appear to decrease the bit depth of the B&W image so it's banded and rough looking. I then have to go in and remove and add the original B&W image to fix it. I have a song here that does it, I'll see if I can attach. Latest MP3Tag 3.22b on Win11 x64.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2023, 5:21am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/album-art-resize-action-altering-b-w-embedded-art/62295/2 "2023-10-05T05:21:40Z")
I can confirm this behaviour.
I resized the offered original from 500x500 to 400x400 with MP3tag:
and with Acdsee:
See the area at the arms.
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2023, 5:35am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/album-art-resize-action-altering-b-w-embedded-art/62295/3 "2023-10-06T05:35:44Z")
Thanks for pointing to that issue. I've experimented and tried to work around this yesterday and while doing so, remembered this topic:
> [@Greyscale palette is greatly reduced when resizing images](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/greyscale-palette-is-greatly-reduced-when-resizing-images/60746):
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> For grayscale (greyscale) JPEGs, Adjust Cover downsamples the image from 256 to 4 colors and outputs a non-greyscale JPEG. 8-bit grayscale images should maintain their colorspace during and after conversion. Example: Drag attached 1000px 8-bit (256-color) grayscale image into cover art box. Right-click and choose Adjust Cover. Resize to 600px, any quality. Observe unwanted color reduction. Right-click and save the reduced image to a new file. Observe (e.g. in Photoshop) that it's not a graysca…
I gave up on it the last time I've tried, but will give it another go over the coming days and will keep you posted.
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2023, 6:57pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/album-art-resize-action-altering-b-w-embedded-art/62295/4 "2023-10-13T18:57:54Z")
I think I found a solution for this problem and have fixed it with [Mp3tag v3.22e](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/455).
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### Author:  [@JohnIV](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/JohnIV)
#### Post date: [October 15, 2023, 5:03pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/album-art-resize-action-altering-b-w-embedded-art/62295/5 "2023-10-15T17:03:42Z")
Looking good from my testing over the last few days, thanks Florian! (MP3s and WMAs).
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 14, 2023, 5:04pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/album-art-resize-action-altering-b-w-embedded-art/62295/6 "2023-11-14T17:04:35Z")
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