Hi,
I scanned an image and saved in multiple formats in seperate files.
gimp can open them all.
I select by color parts of the image and want to bucket fill those
areas with blue. Noe way. Gimp is filling it with balck only. Yes, I
change the foreground color to blue and use "forground color" in bucket
fill options.


what am I doing wrong?

Agryppa

Agryppa <ja@ty.pl> wrote:
>Hi,
>I scanned an image and saved in multiple formats in seperate files.
>gimp can open them all.
>I select by color parts of the image and want to bucket fill those
>areas with blue. Noe way. Gimp is filling it with balck only. Yes, I
>change the foreground color to blue and use "forground color" in bucket
>fill options.
>
>what am I doing wrong?

Hard to say!

Lets try something slightly different, and see if that
works, and then adjust to what you actually want to do.

Open up one of your images.  Use the toolbox to select
the "Free Select Tool".  I'm not sure how this works on
your system, but on mine if I double click on the icon
in the tool box I get a dialog box for that tool.  With
the Free Select Tool you want to be sure that it is
going to "Replace the current selection".

Then draw a selection on your image.  It should end up
with an outline of the selected area marked off by a
dashed line that "moves" (marching ants, or something
like that they call it).  Now anything you do should
only work inside that selected area.  So use the toolbox
to pick the Paintbrush.  Check to see that the
foreground color is something different than the color
of the area selected, and if not change it.  Then use
the paint brush to draw a line through the edge of your
selection.  What should happen is that the foreground
color shows up inside the selected area, but doesn't
outside that area.

If that works okay, select the Bucket Fill tool.  Double
click on the icon to get the dialog box.  You want the
mode to be "normal", opacity to be 100%, Fill Type to be
"FG color fill" and the Affected Area to be "Fill whole
selection".  Use the mouse to put the cursor inside the
selected area, and click there to get it to fill the
area.

Okay, if that works, then go try basically the same
thing with your desired image and selection.  The one
possibility that I can think of is that you've been
doing something with layers, and the active layer isn't
visible.  That would result in the active layer being
filled, but you wouldn't be able to see it.  There are
lots of possible ways to tie yourself up with that one.

-- 
Floyd L. Davidson <http://www.apaflo.com/floyd_davidson>
Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska)              floyd@apaflo.com

On Wed, 16 Feb 2011 22:40:38 +0100, Agryppa wrote:

> Hi,
> I scanned an image and saved in multiple formats in seperate files. gimp
> can open them all.
> I select by color parts of the image and want to bucket fill those areas
> with blue. Noe way. Gimp is filling it with balck only. Yes, I change
> the foreground color to blue and use "forground color" in bucket fill
> options.
> 
> 
> what am I doing wrong?
> 
> Agryppa

Make your selection. Add a new transparent layer then use the bucket fill 
on the selection in the new layer. When finished merge the layer down.



-- 
rich

On 02/16/2011 03:40 PM, Agryppa wrote:
> Hi,
> I scanned an image and saved in multiple formats in seperate files.
> gimp can open them all.
> I select by color parts of the image and want to bucket fill those
> areas with blue. Noe way. Gimp is filling it with balck only. Yes, I
> change the foreground color to blue and use "forground color" in bucket
> fill options.

Is your image in a mode that supports the color you are trying to add?
I sometimes find myself fighting with that sort of problem and eventually
discover that my image is greyscale, or perhaps some 16-color indexed
mode.

Is the bucket fill mode set to something other than "Normal"?

-- 
Bob Nichols         AT comcast.net I am "RNichols42"