: GIMP - export to PNG changes the color completely (from RGB to GRAY) Could somebody please help me to export an image from GIMP to PNG? I have an RGB image in GIMP. When I export the

@BetL875

So - thankfully you linked GIMP's full screenshot. The problem is that what is the active drawable you have when exporting to PNG is not one of the image layers - as you can read on the status bar on the botton, the active drawable is the "selection mask copy".

That is a channel on the channels tab - in GIMP you have one "drawable" object active at a time - drawables can be image layers, layer masks, or channels. Only Layers are color capable, all the other are grayscale drawables - and when one of those is active, that drawable is exported to disk, instead of a merged compose of the visible layers.

The "selection mask copy" mask is created when you pick the Select-> Save to Channel menu option, and made the active drawable. Just click on you layer preview icon on the layers tab to make it active again - and then PNG export will work as expected.

(And to see/reproduce the problem, open the "channels" guide and click on "selection mask copy" before a trial export from there).

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