diff --git a/GreenshotPlugin/Core/BitmapBuffer.cs b/GreenshotPlugin/Core/BitmapBuffer.cs
index e8948b144..ea5d755be 100644
--- a/GreenshotPlugin/Core/BitmapBuffer.cs
+++ b/GreenshotPlugin/Core/BitmapBuffer.cs
@@ -33,6 +33,8 @@ namespace GreenshotPlugin.Core {
 		private static log4net.ILog LOG = log4net.LogManager.GetLogger(typeof(BitmapBuffer));
 		private bool clone;
 		private Bitmap bitmap;
+		// Used for indexed images
+		private Color[] colorEntries;
 
 		public static Color BackgroundBlendColor {
 			get;
@@ -164,6 +166,9 @@ namespace GreenshotPlugin.Core {
 				this.bitmap = sourceImage as Bitmap;
 				this.rect = sourceRect;
 			}
+			if (bitmap.PixelFormat == PixelFormat.Format8bppIndexed) {
+				colorEntries = bitmap.Palette.Entries;
+			}
 		}
 
 		/**
@@ -297,21 +302,33 @@ namespace GreenshotPlugin.Core {
 		/// </summary>
 		/// <param name="x">X coordinate</param>
 		/// <param name="y">Y Coordinate</param>
-		/// <returns>index</returns>
+		/// <returns>color index</returns>
 		public byte GetColorIndexAt(int x, int y) {
 			int offset = x*bytesPerPixel+y*stride;
 			return pointer[offset];
 		}
 
+		/// <summary>
+		/// Get the color for an 8-bit image
+		/// </summary>
+		/// <param name="x"></param>
+		/// <param name="y"></param>
+		/// <returns>Color from the palette</returns>
+		public Color GetColor(int x, int y) {
+			int offset = x * bytesPerPixel + y * stride;
+			byte colorIndex = pointer[offset];
+			return colorEntries[colorIndex];
+		}
+
 		/// <summary>
 		/// Set the color index, for 8BPP, at location x,y
 		/// </summary>
 		/// <param name="x">X coordinate</param>
 		/// <param name="y">Y Coordinate</param>
 		/// <param name="color">Color index to set</param>
-		public void SetColorIndexAt(int x, int y, byte color) {
+		public void SetColorIndexAt(int x, int y, byte colorIndex) {
 			int offset = x * bytesPerPixel + y * stride;
-			pointer[offset] = color;
+			pointer[offset] = colorIndex;
 		}
 
 		/// <summary>
@@ -369,6 +386,7 @@ namespace GreenshotPlugin.Core {
 				int blue = pointer[bIndex + offset];
 
 				if (a < 255) {
+					// As the request is to get without alpha, we blend.
 					int rem = 255 - a;
 					red = (red * a + BackgroundBlendColor.R * rem) / 255;
 					green = (green * a + BackgroundBlendColor.G * rem) / 255;
diff --git a/GreenshotPlugin/Core/QuantizerHelper.cs b/GreenshotPlugin/Core/QuantizerHelper.cs
index 8cf79665e..acb9ee10c 100644
--- a/GreenshotPlugin/Core/QuantizerHelper.cs
+++ b/GreenshotPlugin/Core/QuantizerHelper.cs
@@ -149,13 +149,19 @@ namespace GreenshotPlugin.Core {
 			// Use a bitmap to store the initial match, which is just as good as an array and saves us 2x the storage
 			resultBitmap = new Bitmap(sourceBitmap.Width, sourceBitmap.Height, PixelFormat.Format8bppIndexed);
 			resultBitmap.SetResolution(sourceBitmap.HorizontalResolution, sourceBitmap.VerticalResolution);
+			bool is8Bit = sourceBitmap.PixelFormat == PixelFormat.Format8bppIndexed;
 			using (BitmapBuffer bbbSrc = new BitmapBuffer(sourceBitmap, false)) {
 				bbbSrc.Lock();
 				using (BitmapBuffer bbbDest = new BitmapBuffer(resultBitmap, false)) {
 					bbbDest.Lock();
 					for (int y = 0; y < bbbSrc.Height; y++) {
 						for (int x = 0; x < bbbSrc.Width; x++) {
-							Color color = bbbSrc.GetColorAtWithoutAlpha(x, y);
+							Color color;
+							if (is8Bit) {
+								color = bbbSrc.GetColor(x, y);
+							} else {
+								color = bbbSrc.GetColorAtWithoutAlpha(x, y);
+							}
 							// To count the colors
 							int index = color.ToArgb() & 0x00ffffff;
 							// Check if we already have this color
@@ -203,9 +209,15 @@ namespace GreenshotPlugin.Core {
 				using (BitmapBuffer bbbSrc = new BitmapBuffer(sourceBitmap, false)) {
 					bbbSrc.Lock();
 					byte index;
+					bool is8Bit = sourceBitmap.PixelFormat == PixelFormat.Format8bppIndexed;
 					for (int y = 0; y < bbbSrc.Height; y++) {
 						for (int x = 0; x < bbbSrc.Width; x++) {
-							Color color = bbbSrc.GetColorAt(x, y);
+							Color color;
+							if (is8Bit) {
+								color = bbbSrc.GetColor(x, y);
+							} else {
+								color = bbbSrc.GetColorAt(x, y);
+							}
 							if (lookup.ContainsKey(color)) {
 								index = lookup[color];
 							} else {
@@ -240,9 +252,12 @@ namespace GreenshotPlugin.Core {
 		/// Get the image
 		/// </summary>
 		public Bitmap GetQuantizedImage(int allowedColorCount) {
-			if (colorCount < 256) {
+			if (allowedColorCount > 256) {
+				throw new ArgumentOutOfRangeException("Quantizing muss be done to get less than 256 colors");
+			}
+			if (colorCount < allowedColorCount) {
 				// Simple logic to reduce to 8 bit
-				LOG.Info("Using simple copy, no quantizing needed!");
+				LOG.Info("Colors in the image are already less as whished for, using simple copy to indexed image, no quantizing needed!");
 				return SimpleReindex();
 			}
 			// preprocess the colors
@@ -315,9 +330,18 @@ namespace GreenshotPlugin.Core {
 					bbbSrc.Lock();
 					Dictionary<Color, byte> lookup = new Dictionary<Color, byte>();
 					byte bestMatch;
+					bool is8Bit = sourceBitmap.PixelFormat == PixelFormat.Format8bppIndexed;
 					for (int y = 0; y < bbbSrc.Height; y++) {
 						for (int x = 0; x < bbbSrc.Width; x++) {
-							Color color = bbbSrc.GetColorAtWithoutAlpha(x, y);
+							Color color;
+							if (is8Bit) {
+								color = bbbSrc.GetColor(x, y);
+							} else {
+								color = bbbSrc.GetColorAtWithoutAlpha(x, y);
+							}
+
+							// No need to a strip the alpha as before
+
 							// Check if we already matched the color
 							if (!lookup.ContainsKey(color)) {
 								// If not we need to find the best match