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Summoner99

10-03-2020, 04:28 AM
This is bound to be a really simple problem. 
I downloaded an image. I needed to replace some things with white Problem is, when I open the color menu to select the color white, it doesn't actually draw the color white.
https://imgur.com/NN5R1gs
Here we see what the color menu option looks like, and the color it drew onto my image.
Thanks for your time.

Ofnuts

10-03-2020, 06:09 AM
The purple corners in the swashes indicate that the colors are not available for your image. It is likely that your image is color-indexed (check the title bar) because it is a GIF. In that case Gimp coerces the color you want to the closest color alreadyin the colormap. You can move to full RGB (Image>Mode>RGB) to alleviate this, but the image will be color-indexed again when exporting to GIF, and if the color map was already full on on the initial image, the re-indexing may cause color shifts.
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