Re: [Gimp-user] How to highlight regions of an image

[David Karr <davidmichaelkarr gmail com>]

On Thu, Sep 23, 2021 at 8:38 AM Guy Stalnaker <jimmyg521 gmail com> wrote:

> P.S. One potential issue -- make sure in the Layers Dock that you have the
> correct layer selected! Think the first layer is the "base" layer, and the
> one with the selection your second layer. The Multiply mode must be done to
> the second layer.

And how do I do that?  I notice that when I click on the highlighted
region, the decorations I see on the region alternate every other click.
Otherwise, I see no indication how I can select particular layers.

> Guy
> On 9/23/21 10:02 AM, David Karr via gimp-user-list wrote:
>
> On Wed, Sep 22, 2021 at 6:55 PM Liam R E Quin <liam holoweb net> <liam holoweb net> wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, 2021-09-22 at 15:59 -0700, David Karr via gimp-user-list wrote:
>
> .  For instance, after copying the foreground
> color onto the selection, it talks about setting a "Multiply" layers
> mode.
> I don't see anything like that in the current interface.
>
> It's the 14th entry in the layer mode.
>
> Open the Layers dialogue:
> Windows/Dockable Dialogs/Layers
>
> At the very top of the dialogue is "Mode    Mormal"
> with a small  triangle probably, next to Normal.
>
> Click anywhere on that whole Mode  Normal control and you'll see a list
> of layer modes pop up, starting with Normal, Colour Erase, Dissolve,
> and so on, and some  way down is Multiply.
>
>
> Ok, that and Guy's response was very helpful. However, now I'm finding that
> this simply doesn't do what that other page describes. After I set it to
> Multiply mode, nothing happened. It's been a few hours since I set this up,
> and just tried setting that mode now. I made sure I had clicked on the
> selected region before setting the mode. What could I have done wrong?
>
> The following shows a small excerpt of what I'm looking at. The yellow
> portion has text below it.
>
> [image: image.png]
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