2012/5/15 Candy :

I tried to get into the IRC to ask this question but I kept getting a 404 message. My question is....is "filling with transparent" the same as "tinting"? (explanation: In the image editor that Photobucket used to have I could change the color of something in a picture without losing the original shading, etc. They no longer have that image editor so I am looking for an Open Source program that is easy to use and has that feature.).

You can use change a specific color to transparency with Image: Colors -> Color to Alpha. If that's really what you mean.

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"Candy" writes:

I tried to get into the IRC to ask this question but I kept getting a 404 message. My question is....is "filling with transparent" the same as "tinting"? (explanation: In the image editor that Photobucket used to have I could change the color of something in a picture without losing the original shading, etc. They no longer have that image editor so I am looking for an Open Source program that is easy to use and has that feature.).

If I understand correctly, you can achieve this by creating a new layer, filling with a color, and turning down the layer opacity. If you selected something on the original layer, the same selection is available when you're filling into the new layer (and the original will stay unchanged).

You may find
http://blog.patdavid.net/2011/10/getting-around-in-gimp-layer-masks.html helpful.

-Kevin

On Tue, 2012-05-15 at 12:00 -0700, Candy wrote:

.is "filling with transparent" the same as "tinting"?

no.

Colours->colourise with an active selection (possibly a feathered selection) will probably be closest to the photobucket editor.

As others suggested you can also use a second layer.

Liam

On 12-05-15 03:00 PM, Candy wrote:

I tried to get into the IRC to ask this question but I kept getting a 404

If you are getting a 404 you must be using some website as a gateway to IRC. Use a different IRC gateway site or, better still, use a program that properly supports IRC (such as Pidgin).