Recoloring in Gimp

[Elizabeth212]

I've have tried to recolor things black in gimp but it never comes out right it always comes out gray and I don't want that is there a trick or something to coloring things black?

 

[Oyewole]

I don't understand what you mean. I'd love to help but this doesn't make much sense.

 

[PudgeTheFish]

Recoloring things to black isnt just recoloring.. Its kinda much harder. You can't change the saturation to 0 and expect it to be black... Try youtube!

 

[Elizabeth212]

Sorry this is what I'm talking about

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Recoloring things to black isnt just recoloring.. Its kinda much harder. You can't change the saturation to 0 and expect it to be black... Try youtube!

I've tried that

 

[PudgeTheFish]

Lik I said before, it's not as easy as what you're doing.. I do not have gimp, so I don't know how to help..

 

[Oyewole]

I don't really use GIMP either. I'm still a little confused even with the video. It looks like you were covering in black and it all just randomly disappeared? Try drawing over the area again, make a selection with the wings layer, inverse the selection, select the black coloring layer, then cut.

 

[Neda]

I see what you mean by the gray black.
Then again I don't know anything about recoloring items black other than messing around with the saturation and brightness.
So sorry for not really helping

 

[Oyewole]

I see what you mean by the gray black.
Then again I don't know anything about recoloring items black other than messing around with the saturation and brightness.
So sorry for not really helping

That looks good.

 

[Evehist]

Though your gimp looks like a different version then the one I'm familiar with, but it usually works for me by,

making a new layer > using the bucket tool to color it all black > clip the layer so it only covers the areas of the layer below it > then changing the mode of the layer to "multiply"

Hope this information isn't useless lol XD

 

[Elizabeth212]

I'll try that the version of gimp I have is 2.8[DOUBLEPOST=1436767658][/DOUBLEPOST]What I did was I played around with the brightness/contrast and desaturate and I think I got it

 

[mark]

I'll try that the version of gimp I have is 2.8[DOUBLEPOST=1436767658][/DOUBLEPOST]What I did was I played around with the brightness/contrast and desaturate and I think I got it

try turning down the opacity a little or somehting along those lines because all i really see is black and very faint outlines of the rose petals, also if you'd like to be more precise erase the black on the leaf

 

[Gregory]

Elizabeth, I'd like to suggest a much easier way to recolor.

Go to the "Filters" tab along the top, then select "Colorize".

Now you can mess around with the Hue/Saturation/Lightness- This should make things a lot easier when it comes to recoloring.