colour on greyscale

[Chris Andreae]

I am sure this is an easy task for most. I have a greyscale image onto which I wish to put some coloured shapes/lettering. Copying/pasting the latter removes any colour they have.

Perhaps there is a little YouTube film which addresses the subject more generally.

many thanks

Chris

[GarryP]

You can’t use colour in a greyscale image.
Greyscale images can only contain shades of grey (and black and white).
However, you can change the colour format/profile via Document Setup (and maybe other ways, depending on which Affinity application you are using).

[Chris Andreae]

Many thanks indeed. I did not know where to look and only vaguely what i was looking for!

Still in the foothills.

[Old Bruce]

Make a new RGB or CMYK document of the appropriate size (same as your greyscale image) place your greyscale image in it, it will be greyscale but you can now use colours as well.