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Using the Color Replacer tool really is very simple, still I receive many questions about it's use.
So I'll try and explain it here once more...

Click (select) the Color Replacer tool to miraculously change all occurrences of one color into another.
Let's say you want to replace all instances of the color blue in this image for a kind of purple (mind you: it will also work in a photograph where this particular blue is scattered all over the image!)
In the color tool box make the background color the color you want to change, and the
foreground color should be the color you want to replace it with.
If the Color Replacer tool is selected, pressing Ctrl will make it into a color picker!
So if you press Ctrl, and right-click the color you want to remove, that color will be selected as the background color. Then press Ctrl, and left-click the color you want to replace it with to make that the new foreground color.

And here's the miracle: double-click anywhere in your image, and the old blue will be replaced with your new color! That's all there's to it really.

One remark: I have a mouse where the middle button acts as a double click, but I found out that does NOT work in this case! So I have to left-really-double-click to make it work!

If you want to change one color into another in certain places only, you don't use the double-click trick! Just 'draw' with the brush over the places where you want to replace the color, and it will change as you go.
Of course in the tool options box you can change the size and behaviour of the brush!
That's a nice way to make multi-colored text like I'm attempting in this example.

I think (hope) this will answer the questions you may have had about this subject. Like I said: it's not difficult at all!


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