In the 'Toolbox', you can also choose the colour and the size of the Pencil / Paintbrush. Use the Pencil or the Paintbrush from the 'Toolbox' (the one on the left side) to draw. If the 'New Layer' is not greyed in the toolbox, just click on it to select it. Make sure that you have selected the white layer in the second toolbox because we're going to add colour only to this layer. Just click on the white layer and pull it under the other one per drag and drop. Here, you see the two layers we have by now. To put the white layer unter our first picture, where it belongs, you have to use the second toolbox named 'Layers, Channels, Paths, Undo'.

If this is the case, you won't see your lovely picture anymore, but only whiteness. You've created a second layer now, but probably, it's not lying under the first layer as it should, but on top of it. A new window will appear where you have to choose 'White' as levels fill type. To achieve this, click 'Layer' -> 'New Layer'. Now we need a second layer under the first one. Everything white should have disappeared now. Now click 'OK'.ĭon't panic if your picture is kind of checkered right now - if this is the case, you've done everything right. Click on the displayed colour and select the whitest white you can get (HTML-Notation: ffffff). A new window will appear where you can now choose the colour you want to be transparent. As long as 'Grayscale' is selected, you can only work with black and white.Ĭlick 'Colours' -> 'Colour to Alpha'. It means that you can now work with colours. Click 'Image' -> 'Crop to Selection' and then 'Selection' -> 'No selection'.Ĭlick 'Image' -> 'Mode' and check if 'RYB' is selected. If you want to cut the picture to size, use the tool 'Rectangular selection' from the toolbox to select the part you want to edit. Open Gimp and open the scan you want to use. Of course, there are various ways to do it, but I'll explain to you the way I do it. AwieattiThis time, I'll show you how to add colour to black/white manga scans.

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