Can’t paint with foreground color – help

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Dec 31, 2006
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So I have this file, an index color mode gif, a very small red square. I want to change it to a blue. So I change the foreground color to blue. But when I use either Fill, or the Paint Bucket, or the Paint Brush, it will only color it black. When I switch the foreground to white, it will paint with white, and then if I change it to the same red that is still in the image, it will paint with that red, but any other color simply turns black. I am on the layer not the channel, and there is only one layer.
What am I doing wrong, how do I get color onto this image? I’ve opened up another file, an Index gif, and it works fine. I can’t seem to find any differences with these files or settings, I just don’t get it.

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Dec 31, 2006
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So I have this file, an index color mode gif, a very small red square. I want to change it to a blue. So I change the foreground color to blue. But when I use either Fill, or the Paint Bucket, or the Paint Brush, it will only color it black. When I switch the foreground to white, it will paint with white, and then if I change it to the same red that is still in the image, it will paint with that red, but any other color simply turns black. I am on the layer not the channel, and there is only one layer.
What am I doing wrong, how do I get color onto this image? I’ve opened up another file, an Index gif, and it works fine. I can’t seem to find any differences with these files or settings, I just don’t get it.

That’s because you are trying to edit the 256 colors indexed image, but blue isn’t one of those 256 colors. Change it to RGB first and you should be able to edit as normal.


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