Importing Layer Changes Color

[mattig89ch]

Hello all,

First time here.  In truth, I don't do alot of image editing.  Dangit Jim, I'm a network tech not a graphic artist!

But I had an idea for a custom morale Badge, that I wanted to try and get made for me.  All the people who make said badges, wanted an image to base their printing/embroidering off of.

And thus here we are.  Right now, I managed to figure out how to get image 1's background to be transparent.  But, when I add it as a layer on top of image 2, image 1's colors change.

Is there a way to either re-color image 1 to its original colors?  Or a way to lock image 1's colors, so they don't change?

Thanks all!

[rich2005]

Quote:...But, when I add it as a layer on top of image 2, image 1's colors change.

Difficult to say without the images you are using, but often

If the base image is in Indexed mode - look at the top of the Gimp window it shows the mode, then anything added will use the limited colours from that image.

Check each image, use Image -> Mode -> RGB to set the colour mode for the first image and try again.

[mattig89ch]

ha! That did it!

Thanks!