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- <h3 class="title"><a id="gimp-layer-colors-menu"></a>7.3. Colors</h3>
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- The Color submenu
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- The Color submenu of the Layers menu contains operations that
- alter colors within the image. The top entries give access to
- the <a href="ch03s05.html" title="5. Color Tools">Color tools</a>, which
- are described in the Toolbox chapter.
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- <h4 class="title"><a id="gimp-layer-desaturate"></a>Desaturate</h4>
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- This command can be accessed from an image menubar as
- <span class="guimenu">Layers</span>-><span class="guisubmenu">Color</span>-><span class="guimenuitem">Desaturate</span>.
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- "Desaturate" causes all colors in the active layer to be
- converted to correspondingly bright shades of gray. It differs
- from converting the image to grayscale in two respects: first,
- it only operates on the active layer; second, the colors in the
- layer continue to be three-component RGB colors, and nothing
- prevents you from painting the desaturated layer with any colors
- you please. Desaturate works only on layers from RGB images; if
- the image is Grayscale or Indexed, the menu entry will be
- insensitive.
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- This command can be accessed from an image menubar as
- <span class="guimenu">Layers</span>-><span class="guisubmenu">Color</span>-><span class="guimenuitem">Invert</span>.
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- "Invert" causes all colors in the active layer to be
- inverted in brightness, as though the image were converted into
- a negative. Dark areas turn to bright and conversely; hues are
- replaced by their complement (for more informations about colors see
- glossary at <a href="go01.html#glossary-colormodel">Color Model</a>).
- Invert works on layers from RGB and Grayscale images, but if the
- image is Indexed, the menu entry will be insensitive.
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- The Colors/Auto submenu
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- <p>
- The Layers/Colors/Auto submenu contains operations that
- automatically adjust the distribution of colors in the active
- layer, without requiring input from the user. Several of them
- are actually implemented as plugins.
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- <h4 class="title"><a id="gimp-layer-equalize"></a>Equalize</h4>
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- This command can be accessed from an image menubar as
- <span class="guimenu">Layers</span>-><span class="guisubmenu">Color</span>-><span class="guisubmenu">Auto</span>-><span class="guimenuitem">Equalize</span>.
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- "Equalize" adjusts the brightness of colors across the active
- layer so that the histogram for the Value channel is as nearly
- as possible flat, that is, so that each possible brightness
- value appears at about the same number of pixels as each other
- value. Sometimes Equalize works wonderfully at enhancing the
- contrasts in an image. Other times it gives garbage. It is a
- very powerful operation, which can either work miracles on an
- image or destroy it.
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- <h4 class="title"><a id="plug-in-color-enhance"></a>Color Enhance</h4>
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- This command can be accessed from an image menubar as
- <span class="guimenu">Layers</span>-><span class="guisubmenu">Color</span>-><span class="guisubmenu">Auto</span>-><span class="guimenuitem">Color Enhance</span>.
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- "Color Enhance" increases the saturation range of colors in the
- layer without altering brightness or hue. It does this by
- converting the colors in HSV space, measuring the range of
- saturation values across the image, then stretching this range
- to be as large as possible, and finally converting the colors
- back to RGB. It works on layers from RGB and Indexed images. If the
- image is Grayscale, the menu entry will be
- insensitive.
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- <h4 class="title"><a id="plug-in-normalize"></a>Normalize</h4>
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- <p>
- This command can be accessed from an image menubar as
- <span class="guimenu">Layers</span>-><span class="guisubmenu">Color</span>-><span class="guisubmenu">Auto</span>-><span class="guimenuitem">Normalize</span>.
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- "Normalize" scales brightness values across the active layer so that
- the darkest point becomes black, and the brightest point becomes
- as bright as possible without altering its hue. This is often a
- "magic fix" for images that are dim or washed out. Normalize
- works on layers from RGB, Grayscale, and Indexed images.
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- <h4 class="title"><a id="plug-in-c-astretch"></a>Stretch Contrast</h4>
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- This command can be accessed from an image menubar as
- <span class="guimenu">Layers</span>-><span class="guisubmenu">Color</span>-><span class="guisubmenu">Auto</span>-><span class="guimenuitem">Stretch Contrast</span>.
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- "Stretch Contrast" is somewhat similar to Normalize in its
- effects, except that it works on each color channel of the layer
- individually, rather than just the brightness values. This
- usually leads to color shifts within the image, so it may not
- produce the result you are looking for. Stretch Contrast
- operates on layers from RGB, Grayscale, and Indexed images.
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- <h4 class="title"><a id="plug-in-autostretch-hsv"></a>Stretch HSV</h4>
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- This command can be accessed from an image menubar as
- <span class="guimenu">Layers</span>-><span class="guisubmenu">Color</span>-><span class="guisubmenu">Auto</span>-><span class="guimenuitem">Stretch HSV</span>.
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- "Stretch HSV" does the same thing as "Stretch Contrast", except
- that it works in HSV color space rather than RGB color space.
- Thus, it independently stretches the hue channel, the saturation
- channel, and the value channel. Occasionally the results are
- good, often they are a bit odd. Stretch HSV operates on layers
- from RGB and Indexed images. If the image is Grayscale, the
- menu entry will be insensitive.
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