{"id":641,"date":"2022-03-17T15:21:42","date_gmt":"2022-03-17T15:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tiffedit.com\/blog\/?p=641"},"modified":"2022-03-17T15:21:42","modified_gmt":"2022-03-17T15:21:42","slug":"i-have-a-black-and-white-tiff-file-that-i-want-to-change-the-colour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tiffedit.com\/blog\/archives\/641","title":{"rendered":"I have a black and white Tiff file that I want to change the colour."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I have a black and white Tiff file that I want to change the colour of some black lines to RGB green.<br \/>\nI select the area with a rectangle then click colour adjust and select RGB R=0, G=255 B=0<br \/>\nWhen I saved the colour was reverting to Black &#8211; now it seems to stay as green &#8211; I don&#8217;t know what has changed?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If your file is black-and-white, you need to convert it to color.<br \/>\nTools | Convert | To 24 bit<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>How do I use Advanced TIFF Editor Plus to select an area of a black &amp; white drawing and change the black lines only to green.<br \/>\nI was able to do it but now the selected area changes everything to green including the white background.<br \/>\nAlso is it possible to select the green parts of the drawing to delete?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Mode | Select<br \/>\nSelect your area<br \/>\nTools | Color Adjust<br \/>\nRGB tab<br \/>\n&#8220;Green&#8221; slider<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>thanks , I just discovered I was moving the other sliders back to -255 as well for some reason!<br \/>\nHow about the second part of my question &#8211; is it possible to select by colour to delete?<\/p>\n<p>We have to show parts of a drawing in green to indicate they are to be removed from the equipment.<br \/>\nNext we have to add in new parts to replace the green. We do this in autocad with the tiff file loaded as an image file.<br \/>\nIt would be very convenient if we could simply delete all the green parts so that we have a clear space to add the new.<br \/>\nAt the moment we have to go through and select them all again to delete.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Try to use<\/p>\n<p>Mode | Select<br \/>\nSelection | Select colors<br \/>\nSelect a range of colors (use &#8220;Pick&#8221; button)<\/p>\n<p>After selection click Delete.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I am working with aa tiff file which started out as a black and white line drawing.<\/p>\n<p>I wanted to change the colour of some lines so I converted it to 16 bit colour and selected an area which included some black lines. Using RYB colour adjust I was able to change the black lines to green leaving a white(ish) background.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately I now want to change some back to black but don\u2019t seem to be able to do that without making the background black as well. 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