Properly replacing a colour in a simple bitmap

**handrawn** · 21 June 2013, 07:02 PM

do you mean the colour editor in xara - you need the colour editor drop down menu [top right button on the editor] change colour model to RGB and you can enter hex

**M4R5** · 21 June 2013, 07:05 PM

No I used your Stained Glass method. It worked well except that:

Xara kept screwing up the export because it couldn't flatten the transparency properly.
Xara wouldn't let me type in the colour I wanted to use.
When I used the colour sampler, Xara actually didn't quite match the colour correctly.
Xara couldn't easily invert the bitmap.
Xara wouldn't let me easily view the bitmap at 1:1

So I had to sample the opposite of the colour I wanted, put it as the background, then guesstimate where 1:1 was and use the Windows Snipping Tool.

All in all, Xara just fell a huge amount in my estimations, but I'm glad it could at least do the thing I wanted. Now my background is only 1 shade of blue off where it should be.

Thanks for your help

**M4R5** · 21 June 2013, 07:10 PM

Ah good. Mission accomplished with the correct shade of yellow (later inverted in Photoshop).

Thanks

Looks like the comments got out of order :/

**handrawn** · 21 June 2013, 07:14 PM

that is the downside of the stained glass method - if it's not 'pure' white/black you can get a 'cast' in the colour.... that's why it's called 'stained' glass I guess... I use a photoshop filter to get rid of white and black that works in xara [but you need photoshop installed]

the later versions of xara have improved in this respect