Interesting problem

[sallyanne]

GIMP Version: 2.10.8
Operating System: Windows
OS Version: 10 Home
GIMP Experience: New User

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List any ERROR messages you received:
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Incase this happens to me again can someone explain what went wrong here please.
I cut something out of a coloured photo and pasted it into a similar coloured photo. All jpgs. RGB mode (photos look like they were probably taken with the same camera on the same day) When I pasted as layer the original cut layer onto another photo it turned greyscale.
This has never happened to me before. - why would it. Did I press the wrong thing or what?

[rich2005]

...When I pasted as layer the original cut layer onto another photo it turned greyscale...

Was the destination image greyscale? Anything pasted in, then becomes greyscale.

If that is the case, change that destination image to RGB Image -> Mode -> RGB before pasting in the cut layer.

[sallyanne]

Thanks for answering. No it wasn't a greyscale image rich, both RGB and jpgs.
I did the same thing again and it worked like it should have this time. I must have clicked on the wrong thing instead of 'paste as layer'.

As I said in my original post the photos were of the same origin.
Like someone had taken a few of their children's sports day but didn't get the children together. So they wanted them moved together.

[Wallace]

Hey sallyanne.
That's an odd one for sure.
Could be a temporary settings configuration glitch,
in your User Profile,
but It's difficult to pinpoint exactly why this happened.
Often times,
just a simple restart of Gimp.
Can help fix these kind of issues.

[sallyanne]

Weird thing was though I didn't restart my Gimp before it worked again.

[Wallace]

Weird thing was though I didn't restart my Gimp before it worked again.

How odd.