Re: User interface suggestions

[thristian atdot org]

On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 08:06:37PM -0500, David Grega wrote:
> Okay, let me try to ease up your confusion.
> 
> Grayscaled images (as generally referred to in the programming community) 
> generally take an outline of the icon, paint it in white and all other 
> parts of the icon in dark gray.  What I'm talking about is simply taking 
> the color out of the image and making it into black and white (like 
> watching a TV program in color on an old black and white TV - or if you set 
> the color on your TV to the lowest setting).  The latter is what I call 
> "uncolored".

The process you're trying to describe is "desaturation".

For a sample: Start the GIMP, load an image such as a photograph.
Right click on the image, go to Image, Colors, Hue-Saturation. Drag
the "Saturation" slider all the way to the left to see
"grayscaleness", drag the "lightness" slider all the way to the right
to see "whitening".

This is in GIMP 1.1.26.

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