How To Add Color To A Object In A Black & White Halftone Image

[Ofnuts]

(08-10-2022, 12:00 AM)Frankwpb1970 Wrote:

(08-09-2022, 04:11 PM)Ofnuts Wrote: How do you expect adding color to a grayscale image? Try Image ➤ Mode ➤ RGB and try again

I am trying to learn this as I go, I realize I may ask or being trying something that is really dumb, so I do appreciate the help.

I am back to being confused, there was an image posted here of flowers they appear to be in halftone( am I incorrect in understanding the way to create a halftone effect is with greyscale ?

This is how I get lost one thing does not connect in my mind and then everything seems out of place

i now understand to use  image-->mode-->rgb

how do i keep or create the halftone effect as in the picture in this thread?

There are two meaning for "grayscale":

• Your image is in RGB mode: it has the 3 color channels and pixel a represented by a RGB triplet but in all pixels R=G=B so the only visible color is gray, but you could change pixels to something where R≠G≠B and thus have other colors
  
• Your image is in grayscale mode: it has a single channel, and a pixel is represented by a single value. You cannot add colors here. A benefit of this mode is that the image takes three times less memory...
  

In the case at hand your halftone image is the second kind of grayscale (the title bar of the image tells you the mode), so you cannot add color to it until you have changed it to the first kind, and you can change it with the Image ➤ Mode menu.