Re: Comment on "Saturation" in GIMP

On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 19:25:56 +0000, Lee Miller wrote:

> On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 09:34:30 -0800, Hendy Teguh wrote:
> 
>> After thought it for a while, here's my 'complicated' version of making
>> (blue)-on-white (actually the (blue) replace the black):
>> 
>> 1. Open the images (make sure change it to RGB if it's grayscale),
>> duplicate the layer, then delete the original layer (so we can move the
>> layer).
>> 2. Invert the color (images->color->invert). Change the layer blending
>> into 'Value'
>> 2. Create new layer, fill with (blue), invert this layer too. Move the
>> layer below the images layer.
>> 3. Flatten the images, then invert again
>> 
>> (if you want to save the original)
>> 4. Copy the images, Undo x2, create a new layer, paste images, anchor it
>> and hide the 2 layers below and you're done :)
>> 
>> i hope this short tutorial help for those who need it :)
> 
> 
> This brings us right back to the same results we were at with Sevendy's
> suggestion of adding a layer of blue on top with mode color (In the thread
> "black and white image conversion" which inspired this thread). No
> duplicating, inverting, flattening, re-inverting needed.

PS for added fun fill the color layer with a gradient.