[Gimp-user] Brush painting in wrong colour?

[rich2005 <forums gimpusers com>]

> So, I'm trying to do something fairly straightforward- take a
> pinterest logo, and change the colour to match the branding of my
> website. What I've done is take the image, create a path, open a new
> layer and colour in the selection. The problem is that instead of
> changing the colour to the green I have chosen, it's changing it to a
> pink instead. Any ideas why?
> I've attached a screenshot to kinda show what I'm talking about.
> Thanks!!

The image is in 'indexed' mode which means it used a limited 'colormap' and the
colour you need is not there.

Change the image mode to RGB Image -> Mode -> RGB.

Always a however, If you look at the screenshot, that little boundary along the
selection are semi-transparent pixels ie. anti-aliasing. You are in danger of
losing those and creating nasty hard edges.

Change to RGB then look at other methods for changing the color, Try 
color-rotate

see: https://docs.gimp.org/en/plug-in-rotate-colormap.html

rich: www.gimp-forum.net

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