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      <description>&lt;![CDATA[GIMP - Modify image with the Fill tool.&#xA;&#xA;As part of creating Howto&#39;s for Libreoffice, I had to modify an existing graphic of a keyboard, to highlight the shortcut keys for different functions (e.g printing).  &#xA;&#xA;This formed part of my Keyboard Shortcuts howto.&#xA;&#xA;In order to do this, I used GIMP&#xA;&#xA;Starting with the original image.&#xA;&#xA;keyboard original&#xA;&#xA;I opened this in GIMP&#xA;&#xA;GIMP plus image &#xA;&#xA;Used the ForeGround Colour tool (also shown above)&#xA;&#xA;Foreground Colour Tool&#xA;&#xA;So in this case, selecting white from the colour history, then clicking on a keyboard key area, you can highlight different keys with a colour. &#xA;&#xA;CTRL-P Highlighted&#xA;&#xA;So this shows the modified image. &#xA;&#xA;I also made a video to help illustrate this process.&#xA;&#xA;iframe width=&#34;560&#34; height=&#34;315&#34; sandbox=&#34;allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-popups&#34; src=&#34;https://diode.zone/videos/embed/6ad45b8d-bca0-4569-b856-571cdca3221d&#34; frameborder=&#34;0&#34; allowfullscreen/iframe&#xA;&#xA;#gimp,#image,#Colour,#fill,#modification.&#xA;&#xA;hr&#xD;&#xA;&#xD;&#xA;table&#xD;&#xA;thead&#xD;&#xA;trtda rel=&#34;me&#34; href=&#34;https://qoto.org/@zleap&#34;Mastodon/a/td&#xD;&#xA;tda href=&#34;https://wiki.ircnow.org/?n=Shelllabs.Intro&#34;ShellLabs/td&#xD;&#xA;tda href=&#34;https://joinmastodon.org/&#34;Join Mastodon/a/td/tr/thead/table&#xD;&#xA;center&#xD;&#xA;AI statement : b Consent is NOT granted to use the content of this blog for the purposes of AI training or similar activity.  Consent CANNOT be assumed, it has to be granted. /b&#xD;&#xA;/center&#xD;&#xA;&#xD;&#xA;a href=&#34;https://liberapay.com/PaulSutton/donate&#34;img alt=&#34;Donate using Liberapay&#34; src=&#34;https://liberapay.com/assets/widgets/donate.svg&#34;/a&#xD;&#xA;]]&gt;</description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>GIMP – Modify image with the Fill tool.</p>

<p>As part of creating <a href="https://personaljournal.ca/libreoffice/" rel="nofollow">How_to&#39;s for Libreoffice</a>, I had to modify an existing graphic of a keyboard, to highlight the shortcut keys for different functions (e.g printing).</p>

<p>This formed part of my <a href="https://personaljournal.ca/libreoffice/keyboard-shortcuts" rel="nofollow">Keyboard Shortcuts</a> how_to.</p>

<p>In order to do this, I used <a href="https://www.gimp.org/" rel="nofollow">GIMP</a></p>

<p>Starting with the original image.</p>

<p><img src="https://salsa.debian.org/zleap-guest/screenshots/-/raw/master/shortcuts/qwerty-keyboard-text-path.png" alt="keyboard original"></p>

<p>I opened this in GIMP</p>

<p><img src="https://salsa.debian.org/zleap-guest/screenshots/-/raw/master/gimp/GimpPlusKeyboardImage.png" alt="GIMP plus image"></p>

<p>Used the <strong>ForeGround Colour tool</strong> (also shown above)</p>

<p><img src="https://salsa.debian.org/zleap-guest/screenshots/-/raw/master/gimp/ChangeForeGroundColour.png" alt="Foreground Colour Tool"></p>

<p>So in this case, selecting white from the colour history, then clicking on a keyboard key area, you can highlight different keys with a colour.</p>

<p><img src="https://salsa.debian.org/zleap-guest/screenshots/-/raw/master/shortcuts/ctrl-p.png" alt="CTRL-P Highlighted"></p>

<p>So this shows the modified image.</p>

<p>I also made a video to help illustrate this process.</p>

<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://diode.zone/videos/embed/6ad45b8d-bca0-4569-b856-571cdca3221d" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe>

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