diff --git a/src/Gui/BitmapFactory.cpp b/src/Gui/BitmapFactory.cpp
index cd15e586303b2..3054bd67b6c06 100644
--- a/src/Gui/BitmapFactory.cpp
+++ b/src/Gui/BitmapFactory.cpp
@@ -539,22 +539,33 @@ void BitmapFactoryInst::convert(const QImage& p, SoSFImage& img) const
     QVector<QRgb> table = p.colorTable();
     if (!table.isEmpty()) {
         if (p.hasAlphaChannel()) {
-            if (p.allGray())
+            if (p.allGray()) {
                 numcomponents = 2;
-            else
+            }
+            else {
                 numcomponents = 4;
+            }
         }
         else {
-            if (p.allGray())
+            if (p.allGray()) {
                 numcomponents = 1;
-            else
+            }
+            else {
                 numcomponents = 3;
+            }
         }
     }
     else {
         numcomponents = buffersize / (size[0] * size[1]);
     }
 
+    int depth = numcomponents;
+
+    // Coin3D only supports up to 32-bit images
+    if (numcomponents == 8) {
+        numcomponents = 4;
+    }
+
     // allocate image data
     img.setValue(size, numcomponents, nullptr);
 
@@ -568,29 +579,45 @@ void BitmapFactoryInst::convert(const QImage& p, SoSFImage& img) const
         unsigned char * line = &bytes[width*numcomponents*(height-(y+1))];
         for (int x = 0; x < width; x++)
         {
-            QRgb rgb = p.pixel(x,y);
-            switch (numcomponents)
+            QColor col = p.pixelColor(x,y);
+            switch (depth)
             {
             default:
                 break;
             case 1:
+            {
+                QRgb rgb = col.rgb();
                 line[0] = qGray( rgb );
-                break;
+            }   break;
             case 2:
+            {
+                QRgb rgb = col.rgb();
                 line[0] = qGray( rgb );
                 line[1] = qAlpha( rgb );
-                break;
+            }   break;
             case 3:
+            {
+                QRgb rgb = col.rgb();
                 line[0] = qRed( rgb );
                 line[1] = qGreen( rgb );
                 line[2] = qBlue( rgb );
-                break;
+            }   break;
             case 4:
+            {
+                QRgb rgb = col.rgb();
                 line[0] = qRed( rgb );
                 line[1] = qGreen( rgb );
                 line[2] = qBlue( rgb );
                 line[3] = qAlpha( rgb );
-                break;
+            }   break;
+            case 8:
+            {
+                QRgba64 rgb = col.rgba64();
+                line[0] = qRed( rgb );
+                line[1] = qGreen( rgb );
+                line[2] = qBlue( rgb );
+                line[3] = qAlpha( rgb );
+            }   break;
             }
 
             line += numcomponents;