I have a source jpg file which is a greyscale image. I wish I could have the strength of the grey become a strength of a color of my choosing (pink). I've been hunting around in color filters pretty hard but have not found a way to do this.
Inkscape is primarily a vector graphics program, whereas JPG files are 'raster'. Many of Inkscape's features will not work on JPGs because they aren't vector. Gimp is possibly a better option.
Now having said, possibly the filter Duochrome might do what you need (it's on menu Filters > Colours > Duochrome)? You'll have many more options within Gimp, though.
I concur with @z3z that a raster program such as The GIMP is the best way to achieve this. In that program the steps would be something like this:
Load your greyscale image into The GIMP.
Set the foreground and background colours to the shades of pink you want at the extremes (i.e. the tones that will be mapped to black and white in the image).
In the Gradients dialog, ensure that 'FG to BG (RGB)' is selected. You should see a thumbnail of a gradient running between your selected colours.
In the menu select Colours > Map > Gradient Map.
Save the file, probably using File > Export or File > Export As... (the 'Save' options only save to The GIMP's native format).
If you have a specific reason why you need to do this in Inkscape instead, please provide some more details as there are methods to achieve what you want, but for a raster-only file it's not the best tool for the job.
Howdy,
I have a source jpg file which is a greyscale image. I wish I could have the strength of the grey become a strength of a color of my choosing (pink). I've been hunting around in color filters pretty hard but have not found a way to do this.
Is there a way?
Inkscape is primarily a vector graphics program, whereas JPG files are 'raster'. Many of Inkscape's features will not work on JPGs because they aren't vector. Gimp is possibly a better option.
Now having said, possibly the filter Duochrome might do what you need (it's on menu Filters > Colours > Duochrome)? You'll have many more options within Gimp, though.
I concur with @z3z that a raster program such as The GIMP is the best way to achieve this. In that program the steps would be something like this:
If you have a specific reason why you need to do this in Inkscape instead, please provide some more details as there are methods to achieve what you want, but for a raster-only file it's not the best tool for the job.