Re: [Gimp-developer] Colored Quick mask also to Grayscaled images

[Carol Spears <carol spears gmail com>]

On Sat, Nov 11, 2017 at 4:52 PM, Mario Sottile - Marionetas Mey <
mariomey gmail com> wrote:

> Marionetas Mey
>
> > Just convert it to RGB.  Image->Mode->RGB
> Yes, this is a workaround. My suggestion is to have colored Quick Mask
> also in Graycaled images without converting them. *This is the main issue.*

I am pretty sure that this is not "a workaround".  The surface of the image
when moded GRAY only has access to the gray colors.  So that gray that
quickmask adopts is the red that is set in the preferences.

If you are just making a selection, converting to RGB does nothing to the
original colors.  After the selection is made, set it back to GRAY and
everything is fine.

If I am wrong, and you have a patch for all of this you would like for GIMP
to do differently, it will go a lot farther than imagining things on the
developer list.

carol