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Color is different from what i selected - cheesetrap - 03-02-2021
Hello! Whenever I select a colour, it doesn't show up as that colour when I draw on the picture. It's either a less saturated form or a different colour entirely. My brush mode is set to normal, and I can't think of any other way to fix this. I'm using version 2.10.22. Thanks in advance!
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This is what I selected
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This is what shows up after
RE: Color is different from what i selected - Ofnuts - 03-02-2021
Is you image color-indexed? If so you have purple corners in the FG/BG color swashes in the tool box, telling you thathe colors are not usable in the picture.
When an image is color-indexed (all GIF, and some PNG) the colors of pixels are encoded as an index in a colormap, and the only color you can use are those in the color map (otherwise Gimp tires to find the nearest color).
You can change your image to RGB using Image>Mode>RGB.