Sprites too bright

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Newbie alert!
When I load a sprite with the Color flag enabled it appears much brighter than the original image, when I use the Alpha flag it appears much darker and is too transparent for my purpose. With the Masked flag the color and brightness are just fine but there is an ugly black margin around the sprite... can anybody tell me how to make my sprite look like the bloody image it was loaded from? :)