Re: [Gimp-user] replacing color

[Carol Spears]

On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 01:51:17PM -0400, Tom wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Question:  (I'm using Gimp 2.0.4 on Suse Linux 8.2)
> I'm having a problem changing the color of text in a gif image.
> I have a set of buttons I'd like to use for my website and want
> to change the color of the text from orange to purple.
> In Gimp I set the foreground color to #bb00bb (purple).
> I open the image and choose 'select by color' and click on the orange text
> and then select the 'replace with FG color' (purple) and the color gets
> replaced with gray.
> Does any one know why this happens?  Am I doing it the wrong way?
> 
what you are doing should work fine with the addition of one step.
gif's are indexed images therefore limited to only 256 colors.  if you
 Image -->Mode -->RGB first and then do what you were doing,
everything should work fine.  RGB is millions of colors.

carol

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Re: [Gimp-user] replacing color

[Andrea Sozzi]

I'm having a problem changing the color of text in a gif image.
[...]
I open the image and choose 'select by color' and click on the orange text
and then select the 'replace with FG color' (purple) and the color gets
replaced with gray.
Your gif image is indexed, so only a small number of colors are 
avaialable. Try to change mode to RGM (Image > Mode > RGB), replace the 
color and then convert it back to indexed (Image > Mode > Indexed).

andrea
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