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I started with a snake skin pattern that had different shades of brown and turned it into black and white by using  Image>Mode>Grayscale.  It was perfect but now I can't introduce a golden frame and paste it into a layer without it turning silver (surely an effect of the grayscale).  When I try to go back to deselected it just didn't remove the check mark. How could I "turn off"  the grayscale on one layer only?  I was tempted to simply save the image as a Jpeg and then start again but...I want to learn  so show me how I could have achieve the black and white effect yet avoiding this conundrum![ATTACH]59189[/ATTACH]