Why is gimp in grayscale

The imported images photos, etc are in color, but the program itself toolbox, layers, etc. This link is for 15 other themes. It says their for 2. To learn where to park them in the app. Head down to the folders section of Preferences, open the themes option, there should be two directory paths there.

Placing the unziped themes in either one of these directories will allow them to be shown as theme options. This vidio will walk you through the process, and when the description is expanded there is a link to a onedrive zip file. While here, click on Icon theme, the menu just below theme and you will manage to change the display color of your icons.

Hello, I am really new to this program. I now have a white background the icons are in color. BUT when I try to select the paint bucket or brush, I cannot get a color pallet. It's still a choice of black or white. What do I need to do to retrieve the colors for this program.

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Here is an example image, loaded into GIMP. I thought it might look nice as a black and white image. This formula does a pretty nice job in the general case, but some images do not work as well with it, particularly if the green channel component is not strong.

I suspect GIMP uses a similar formula. My experiments with the Channel Mixer more on this below support this. Here is what I get if I use desaturate instead. Unlike the grayscale mode change above, the channels are not remixed in different percentages, so we should expect different results.

The result is visually different; note the increased contrast in the scales. You can see a lot more noise in the desaturated zoomed view examine the blurred area below the spikes. Each one can be represented as an independent grayscale image. Here you can see the three channels: red top , green middle and blue bottom.

So, at every pixel, what you see is an additive combination of these three components. All these combinations result in a way to represent millions of colors. Indexed - This is the mode usually used when file size is of concern, or when you are working with images with few colors. It involves using a fixed number of colors, or less, at each point to represent the color at that point.

The defaults to attempting to figure out an "optimum palette" to best represent your image. Try it, you can undo it if you don't like the results, or use a custom palette or more colors. Figure 3. As you might expect, since the information needed to represent the color at each pixel is less, the file size is smaller. However, sometimes, there are options in the various menus that are "greyed" out for no apparent reason.

This usually means that the filter or option cannot be applied when your image is in its current mode. Changing the mode to RGB, as outlined above, should solve this issue.