Problem with Paint

[zachary720]

Trying to color in a pic of an xmas tree in paint on my XP home puter but am only getting shades of gray. Am able to color the pic on on my 98 pc in paint no problem. Any ideas? Thanks

[Welshjim]

zachary720--Are you doing all the things it say here
"To fill an area or object with color
In the toolbox, click Fill With Color .
Click or right-click a color in the color box if the color you want is different from either the current foreground color or background color.
Click or right-click the area or object you want to fill.


If the shape you want to fill has any breaks in its border, the fill color spreads to the rest of the drawing area. To find and close any openings, click the View menu, pointing to Zoom, and then click Large Size or Custom.
To fill with the foreground color, click the area; to fill with the background color, right-click the area. " ??
This comes from Paint's Help|Index tab|type color|highlight filling|Display. There are more hints if you go to Help.
And more here
http://www.google.com/search?sourcei...lor+in+MSPaint

[zachary720]

Yes I am trying to fill the areas with color. The problem is like when I click to use the green color it comes out a shade of gray. Any color I choose comes out a shade of gray.

[Nix]

Go to Image > Attributes

MAke sure Colors is selected and click ok.

[DanC]

If it's a gif you can only use the colors in the image color palette. I don't know how to change the image color palette in Paint (don't use it). Maybe you could save the file as jpg or bmp to use all of the colors.

[wonderinguy34]

Go to Image > Attributes

MAke sure Colors is selected and click ok.

if color is already selected ,select b&w ,then Go to Image > Attributes and reselect color.