image turning black and white when imported to other image

[eviloctopus1]

So i'm making the funny memes and when i open a image as a layer to add it to a other picture it turns black and white. but it won't do it with all pictures for example i have a picture of saddam hussein venting and it is in color but the other picture of saddam hussein is in black and white pls help.

[rich2005]

Quote:So i'm making the funny memes and when i open a image as a layer to add it to a other picture it turns black and white.

It is because the image you are pasting or adding as layer into is an indexed mode image. Look at the top of your screenshot where it says guy cereal.xcf-29 Indexed color 8 bit.....

Start again. Open your indexed image. Make it RGB Image -> Mode -> RGB then anything you paste / add as layer into that keeps its colours.

Reminder: Unless you change the mode to RGB
Base image Indexed -> anything added also indexed, colours used limited to the image colormap
Base image Greyscale -> anything added becomes greyscale

[Ofnuts]

More info: https://www.gimp-forum.net/Thread-What-a...-all-wrong