[pkscout]

AS is definitely broken for the latest official Kodi (18.5; at least under Android), whether I am using the pkscout's Leia Estuary mod or not.

I just did a clean reinstall to double check this - freshly installed Kodi 18.5, then installed Leia Estuary mod, then installed the AS, then enabled image override inside AS. Then regardless of the "background diffusion settings" (I tried default, None, and 100%) I get exactly the same behaviour:

 - When music starts, first I see the foreground stuff - mp3 built-in image, title, progress bar. All looks bright and contrasty.
 - 1-2 seconds later, I can see my slideshow starting in the background. Foreground is still visible (bright and contrasty), my slideshow has low contrast.
 - 1-2 seconds later, the foreground disappears, my slideshow keeps running, but it still has exactly the same low contrast as before.

If I watch the same images using the Kodi's Pictures mode, they look bright and contrasty.

Is this behaviour intended? If yes, I'd really appreciate if it were fixed, as slideshow looks very bad.

If this is not intended, there must be a bug somewhere, which keeps the slideshow images at low contrast (presumably by keeping a semi-transparent black image in front of it).

Can you please look into this? I will add detailed logs here shortly.

I am unable to duplicate your issue on my Mac, Windows, or OSMC machines with either my Estuary mod or the default Estuary.  I'll be happy to look through the logs, but if you're having the same problem with Estuary and my Estuary mod I'm leaning towards either a local issue you have or something on Android.  Regardless, as I said above, AS doesn't actually show any images. All it does is set a skin property so the skin can show an image.  If you're seeing the problem with the default Estuary, I'd suggest you post something in the Estuary support forum, as maybe someone there has an Android based Kodi setup they can test with to help troubleshoot.

https://forum.kodi.tv/forumdisplay.php?fid=260