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Gimp Text Tool writing in Green Colour - daiappy - 01-27-2025
Can anyone help me here, please? I can only get the Text Tool to write in a green colour, or black. It was all ok last time I used the text tool some weeks ago & I could get any colour from the pallette. What am I doing wrong or has something changed?
I am using Gimp 2.10.38 on Windows 11. I have attached a file.
RE: Gimp Text Tool writing in Green Colour - Ofnuts - 01-27-2025
(01-27-2025, 12:37 PM)daiappy Wrote: Can anyone help me here, please? I can only get the Text Tool to write in a green colour, or black. It was all ok last time I used the text tool some weeks ago & I could get any colour from the pallette. What am I doing wrong or has something changed?
I am using Gimp 2.10.38 on Windows 11. I have attached a file.
No file attached.
- Check if you are in a color indexed image
- In your channels list, make sure all channels are selected (if what you get is pure green, it may be that the red and blue channels have been deselected).
RE: Gimp Text Tool writing in Green Colour - daiappy - 01-27-2025
(01-27-2025, 12:44 PM)Ofnuts Wrote:(01-27-2025, 12:37 PM)daiappy Wrote: Can anyone help me here, please? I can only get the Text Tool to write in a green colour, or black. It was all ok last time I used the text tool some weeks ago & I could get any colour from the pallette. What am I doing wrong or has something changed?
I am using Gimp 2.10.38 on Windows 11. I have attached a file.
No file attached.
- Check if you are in a color indexed image
- In your channels list, make sure all channels are selected (if what you get is pure green, it may be that the red and blue channels have been deselected).
Rich - thanks. Very fast reply. I'll look into the color indexed image. A bit to read & take in.
The image came out of RawTherapee. The mode is in RGB and all the channels are selected.
Maybe a setting changed in RT.
RE: Gimp Text Tool writing in Green Colour - daiappy - 01-28-2025
Hi - friend of Daiappy here
From my limited testing this looks like it's a bug in the 2.10 series. Specifically I can reproduce it here with a 16bit int image and the RT Large colour space. When using 100% red, 0% green, 0% blue as the selected colour, I get green looking text in the image. Measuring the colour of the text using the colour picker shows the values:
R 0
G 65535
B 0
R -968.8%
G 109.4%
B -24.5%
So I'm guessing some combination of the large gamut profile and the 16 bit int precision is causing the issue. Indeed, converting the image from 16 bit int to float *or* converting the profile to Gimp's internal sRGB before adding the text "fixes" the issue.
I cannot reproduce this in Gimp 3 rc2. It works as expected there.