Pasting loses color

[Ofnuts]

(12-05-2019, 04:39 PM)marigolden Wrote:

(12-05-2019, 08:11 AM)Ofnuts Wrote: If the image is color-indexed, what is pasted is coerced into the colors in the color map. Change to RGB mode to edit the image (but the expect a "color crunch" when exporting to GIF...).

I went to image>mode>RGB but it already had the dot next to it :{

What is the layer opacity (as given by the big slider + possible layer rmask)? Any specific layer modes?