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How to rotate colors in Gimp

So you have a image file and you want to replace a colour with other (e.g. yellow with red and white blue):

how to rotate colors in gimp

source: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/af/Tux.png

You have Gimp and you don't know how to do it. It happens sometime, especially to me.

But here it is how to rotate colors in Gimp:

  • make sure that you image's mode is RGB (menu Image > Mode > RGB)
  • select Color > Map > Rotate Colors
    • you have he source (From) colour panel and the destination colour panel (To); use those two arrows inside the colour wheel and rotate them (counter) clockwise until you get the colour you want
how to rotate colors in gimp

GIMP menu: Color > Map > Rotate Colors

Others examples can be found here and here and perhaps in many other places.

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Eugen Mihailescu

Founder/programmer/one-man-show at Cubique Software
Always looking to learn more about *nix world, about the fundamental concepts of math, physics, electronics. I am also passionate about programming, database and systems administration. 16+ yrs experience in software development, designing enterprise systems, IT support and troubleshooting.
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