Images importing in black and white?

slimslo73254 · **Joined:** Nov 18, 2018 **Posts:** 1

GIMP Version: 2.8.14
Operating System: Windows
OS Version: Windows 10
GIMP Experience: New User

I am new to using GIMP and have been following some tutorials on YouTube, but I have run in to an issue and do not know what is causing this. Every time that I try to import a .png file it is coming up black and white and does not have the colors that I created it as in Inkscape.

Does anyone know how what I am doing wrong? Also I don't know how to post a screen shot can someone help me with that?

lylejk · **Joined:** Sep 24, 2010 **Posts:** 12822

Make sure your image settings is set to color and not black/white or Indexed before you import your image into the layer you are working with.

Dist · **Joined:** Jan 01, 2021 **Posts:** 2

Hello. I'm having the same issue with my color images importing as black and white images when I "import as layer" and I do not know how to change the image settings to color. Can you please explain the steps? Thank you!

sallyanne · **Posted:** Fri Jan 01, 2021 9:40 pm **(#4)**

make sure your image mode is select to RGB - it should be by default but sounds like you may have changed it.

Dist · **Joined:** Jan 01, 2021 **Posts:** 2

Okay. Thank you!