readpixel reads the Alpha Channel ?

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They are stored as 24bit RAW bitmaps, and the only way you can force this is use them with Flag 4. ReadPixel does all the pixel conversion for you, and is thus slightly slower than peeking the RAW data directly, providing your own conversion is outside the loop.