[Gimp-user] black & white

[norman]

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> There are no such things as adjustment layers in GIMP, but in one of the 
> future versions, much more powerful tools will be available to allow 
> non-destructive editing.  You can do pretty much of what's done there though 
> in different ways as mentioned on the page that Tim gave.  As to why the BG 
> copy 2 layer in your page is b&w, I best quote that page itself:
> 
> "the top layer (Background copy) shows where we did a simple 'remove colour' 
> and have de-selected the 'eye' so as to hide this layer."
> 
> The coloured seem to be effectively desaturated with one of the adjustment 
> layers.

Thank you very much indeed. Now I can forget all about the approach I
thought I would look at and concentrate on those ways I know best - the
methods suggested and demonstrated by Ralph Steinort.

Norman