I saved it as a pspimage file, but still doesn't work. Any suggestions appreciated. Thanks.Adding Color Text to a Grayscale Image?
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Adding Color Text to a Grayscale Image?
I'm running PSP X9. I have a scanned grayscale jpg image that is primarily B&W text. I would like to use PSP to add a few comments to the image in red. I've got the Pen Tool open, but the pallet only includes grayscale values and I cannot figure out how to add another color choice. I saved it as a pspimage file, but still doesn't work. Any suggestions appreciated. Thanks.
I saved it as a pspimage file, but still doesn't work. Any suggestions appreciated. Thanks.-
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Re: Adding Color Text to a Grayscale Image?
Greyscale (B&W) images tend to be indexed images. This means they have a set palette of colors, and each pixel is assigned an index to a color in that palette. This will usually save space as you're not recording three numbers for every pixel. So you have two options, increase the number of available colors in the image by increasing the color depth. Or trying to find an unused index color to change to a RED.
1) Increase the available color depth to full color (Image -> Increase Color Depth -> RGB 8-bits/channel ) then you'll have all of the colors you want available to you, the original image will still be nothing but black, white, and grays but you'll have access to more colors.
2) The other option, not recommended, is to edit the palette. Also under the Image menu. (Image -> Palette -> Edit Palette) choose a color and change it to RED. This is not recommended as it will change that color across the entire image. This may be only one pixel, it may be many pixels, depends on how many color variations there are. And you'll most likely end up trying to edit 256 different colors before finding the right one.
Although it's not a great example here is a video that demonstrates both options: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8FlFL ... VoU2M/view
1) Increase the available color depth to full color (Image -> Increase Color Depth -> RGB 8-bits/channel ) then you'll have all of the colors you want available to you, the original image will still be nothing but black, white, and grays but you'll have access to more colors.
2) The other option, not recommended, is to edit the palette. Also under the Image menu. (Image -> Palette -> Edit Palette) choose a color and change it to RED. This is not recommended as it will change that color across the entire image. This may be only one pixel, it may be many pixels, depends on how many color variations there are. And you'll most likely end up trying to edit 256 different colors before finding the right one.
Although it's not a great example here is a video that demonstrates both options: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8FlFL ... VoU2M/view
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Re: Adding Color Text to a Grayscale Image?
Thank you! That worked beautifully.LeviFiction wrote:... 1) Increase the available color depth to full color (Image -> Increase Color Depth -> RGB 8-bits/channel ) then you'll have all of the colors you want available to you, the original image will still be nothing but black, white, and grays but you'll have access to more colors.
I appreciate your fast help. I was dead-stop in the middle of a project.