On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 06:51:35AM -0700, Shane Hathaway wrote: > Charles Curley wrote: > >I have a GIF image I'd like to add text to. I open the image, I set up > >the text tool as I want it. This includes black for the foreground > >color. I go to the image, and click on a location, and start > >typing. The color of the text is only slightly darker than the > >original image color, and certainly is not black. What am I doing > >wrong? > > After opening the image, the palette is initially limited to the colors > present in the GIF palette. When you add text, it chooses the color > that it thinks is closest to the one you specified. To make the full > palette available, after opening the image, switch to the RGB palette > using Image | Mode | RGB. When you save the image back to GIF, it will > automatically downsample the palette in a relatively intelligent way.
Bingo. Did exactly what I wanted. Thank you. -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
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