OutOfMemoryException in System.Drawing.Graphics.DrawImage

I was using these GIF images stored as embedded resources and suddenly I got an Out of memory exception from a component that I had no control over. All images were icon size, 16x16 or a little more, so a lot of the explanations for the error based on "you don't have enough memory!" (duh!) were not helpful. The images did have transparent pixels, and my gut feeling is that it all came from there.

I still don't know what caused it, but I did find a solution. Where I get the image I add an additional

image = image.GetThumbnailImage(image.Width, image.Height, null, IntPtr.Zero);

I know it's not something very intuitive, but it solved the problem.

The only significant difference between the image before and after the thumbnailization is the PixelFormat property that changed from PixelFormat.Format8bppIndexed to PixelFormat.Format32bppArgb.

The stack looks like this:

   at System.Drawing.Graphics.CheckErrorStatus(Int32 status)
   at System.Drawing.Graphics.DrawImage(Image image, Rectangle destRect, Int32 srcX, Int32 srcY, Int32 srcWidth, Int32 srcHeight, GraphicsUnit srcUnit, ImageAttributes imageAttrs, DrawImageAbort callback, IntPtr callbackData)
   at System.Drawing.Graphics.DrawImage(Image image, Rectangle destRect, Int32 srcX, Int32 srcY, Int32 srcWidth, Int32 srcHeight, GraphicsUnit srcUnit, ImageAttributes imageAttr, DrawImageAbort callback)
   at System.Drawing.Graphics.DrawImage(Image image, Rectangle destRect, Int32 srcX, Int32 srcY, Int32 srcWidth, Int32 srcHeight, GraphicsUnit srcUnit, ImageAttributes imageAttr)

And, using Reflector, I could go as far as pinpointing the error to the method System.Drawing.SafeNativeMethods.Gdip.GdipDrawImageRectRectI which wraps the gdiplus.dll GdipDrawImageRectRectI function. It returns error status 3, which is Out of memory, and that is that. I couldn't find a C++ code for the GdiPlus library and even if I had, who I am kidding? :)