Re: [Gimp-user] How to highlight regions of an image

[Guy Stalnaker <jimmyg521 gmail com>]

P.S. One potential issue -- make sure in the Layers Dock that you have 
the correct layer selected! Think the first layer is the "base" layer, 
and the one with the selection your second layer. The Multiply mode must 
be done to the second layer.

Guy

On 9/23/21 10:02 AM, David Karr via gimp-user-list wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 22, 2021 at 6:55 PM Liam R E Quin <liam holoweb net> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 2021-09-22 at 15:59 -0700, David Karr via gimp-user-list wrote:
> > > .  For instance, after copying the foreground
> > > color onto the selection, it talks about setting a "Multiply" layers
> > > mode.
> > > I don't see anything like that in the current interface.
> > It's the 14th entry in the layer mode.
> >
> > Open the Layers dialogue:
> > Windows/Dockable Dialogs/Layers
> >
> > At the very top of the dialogue is "Mode    Mormal"
> > with a small  triangle probably, next to Normal.
> >
> > Click anywhere on that whole Mode  Normal control and you'll see a list
> > of layer modes pop up, starting with Normal, Colour Erase, Dissolve,
> > and so on, and some  way down is Multiply.
> Ok, that and Guy's response was very helpful. However, now I'm finding that
> this simply doesn't do what that other page describes. After I set it to
> Multiply mode, nothing happened. It's been a few hours since I set this up,
> and just tried setting that mode now. I made sure I had clicked on the
> selected region before setting the mode. What could I have done wrong?
>
> The following shows a small excerpt of what I'm looking at. The yellow
> portion has text below it.
>
> [image: image.png]
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