On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 9:02 AM, Mario Sottile - Marionetas Mey < mariomey@gmail.com> wrote:

When I work with an grayscaled image (now, with x-ray photo), quick mask is also gray... it is almost invisible. In this case, I think it's more important to have it colored than with a colored photo!

Just convert it to RGB. Image->Mode->RGB

You are right, btw, about it being important to use a color mask on a black and white image.

carol

my 2 Rupees:
An option to change the mask to any hue we want would help. Additionally an option of automatic continuous slow rotation of the hue of the mask would help (in the same way marching ants help).

On Fri 10 Nov, 2017, 19:53 Carol Spears, wrote:

On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 9:02 AM, Mario Sottile - Marionetas Mey < mariomey@gmail.com> wrote:

When I work with an grayscaled image (now, with x-ray photo), quick mask is also gray... it is almost invisible. In this case, I think it's more important to have it colored than with a colored photo!

Just convert it to RGB. Image->Mode->RGB

You are right, btw, about it being important to use a color mask on a black and white image.

carol
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On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 10:20 PM, Laxminarayan Kamath wrote:

my 2 Rupees:
An option to change the mask to any hue we want would help. Additionally an option of automatic continuous slow rotation of the hue of the mask would help (in the same way marching ants help).

You can change the color, via Preferences.

Don't you think that the fluid change that you are describing would be distracting?

carol

On 11/11/17, Carol Spears wrote:

On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 10:20 PM, Laxminarayan Kamath wrote:

You can change the color, via Preferences.

Oh, That is nice.

Don't you think that the fluid change that you are describing would be distracting?

Depends on the speed of the color cycling. I tried to think in terms of marching ants.

Now that I think of it, a much better idea would be to have a hotkey that cycles between a bunch of chosen or random colors. Or a simple algorithm that decides which color is best suited for the current area under the cursor.

The problem I am trying to solve is, if the color of the mask is close to the color of the section of the image we want to edit, it is going to be difficult to distinguish between the mask and the image pixels. It is important to have a hotkey for this because if we are editing the mask for a multi color image (which is generally the case) , we would want to change the mask color without moving the pointing device.

Additionally, a hotkey like the spacebar-move that hides the mask when the key is down would be helpful too.

Laxminarayan Kamath Ammembal
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On Sat, Nov 11, 2017 at 4:52 PM, Mario Sottile - Marionetas Mey < mariomey@gmail.com> wrote:

Marionetas Mey

Just convert it to RGB. Image->Mode->RGB

Yes, this is a workaround. My suggestion is to have colored Quick Mask also in Graycaled images without converting them. *This is the main issue.*

I am pretty sure that this is not "a workaround". The surface of the image when moded GRAY only has access to the gray colors. So that gray that quickmask adopts is the red that is set in the preferences.

If you are just making a selection, converting to RGB does nothing to the original colors. After the selection is made, set it back to GRAY and everything is fine.

If I am wrong, and you have a patch for all of this you would like for GIMP to do differently, it will go a lot farther than imagining things on the developer list.

carol