Gimp Question

[Carl Reynolds]

On Sunday 10 July 2005 12:29 pm, Jonathan Allen wrote:

>>My GIMP question is: having picked up a black-and-white gif file, how
>>can I 'select' individual parts of the black foreground text and swap
>>their colour to, say, red-on-white highlight them - that is without
>>drawing it.  In more generic words, if I hand-draw a selection area,
>>how can I turn all the pixels of one colour within the selection to
>>another colour ?
>>
>>Jonathan
>>    
>>
You can use Select->By Color to make a selection of the color you want 
to change. Adjust the amount that gets selected by playing with the 
threshold. Then you can use Edit->Fill FG Color, Edit->Fill BG Color, or 
Edit->Fill with Pattern to fill the selected area with a new color or 
pattern. I would suggest making a new layer before you fill the 
selection. that way you preserve your original image and can try a 
number of different fills to see how they look.



Carl.