On Sun, 29 Apr 2007 09:12:18 -0600 Bob Meetin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I inherited an image, a logo, in which I need to swap out one color, > solid region, for another. Seems simple. > > I open in gimp, select the region using, have tried both 'Select regions > by color' and 'Select contiguous regions', then apply any new color and > I end up with a mix of the original and replacement color. After > befuddling myself for an hour (including using other image editing > software) I copied the image from .gif to both .jpg and .png format. As > a .png or .jpg the color replacement works fine. > > See the 3 'raw' images at > > www.dottedi.biz/codesamples/images/shape.gif > www.dottedi.biz/codesamples/images/shape.jpg > www.dottedi.biz/codesamples/images/shape.png > > I don't really want to be using .jpg or .png images unless I have to. > So the question, what is causing the replacement to fail and is there a > way to make or convet the .gif accept the color swap? Open your image Save it as an xcf file Image->Mode->RGB Filters->Filters->Colours->Colour to Alpha Then create a new layer and do your filling as required Owen _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
