[Gimp-user] why would the input png automatically get blurred?

2017-03-16 Thread bsmile
>In indexed mode, the color of a pixel in the image (in all layers) is >taken from a "color map". Since the index in the color map is a 8-bit >byte, you can only have 256 colors (across all layers). When you >import >another image, its colors are approximated with the 256 colors in the >current

[Gimp-user] why would the input png automatically get blurred?

2017-03-15 Thread bsmile
>The image is in indexed colors mode. Use Image > Mode to switch to >RGB. >It is a very fast way to create a new layer from exactly what's >visible >in the image as a whole. This is useful if you want to reuse the >current >result in another image, for example. Thanks, after change the mode, the

Re: [Gimp-user] why would the input png automatically get blurred?

2017-03-15 Thread Michael Schumacher
On 03/15/2017 08:10 PM, bsmile wrote: > The xcf should reproduce the issue. Just delete the existing layer from > layer->delete layer, and then file->open as layers to import the attached png > file, and you will see the figure gets blurred. Quite weird, is it? The image is in indexed colors

[Gimp-user] why would the input png automatically get blurred?

2017-03-15 Thread bsmile
The xcf should reproduce the issue. Just delete the existing layer from layer->delete layer, and then file->open as layers to import the attached png file, and you will see the figure gets blurred. Quite weird, is it? Also another question is, what's the use of "new from visible"? It seems it