[Gimp-user] Brush painting in wrong colour?

[Meg <forums gimpusers com>]

> 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

Thank you! I knew it was going to be something really straightforward. 

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