The Colorize tool renders the active layer or selection into a greyscale image seen through a colored glass. You can use it to give a “ Sepia” effect to your image. See Color model for Hue, Saturation, Luminosity.
You can get to the Hue-Saturation tool in two ways :
In the the image-menu through:
→ →By clicking the tool icon: in Toolbox, provided that you have installed color tools in Toolbox. For this, go to Tools Dialog.
The slider and the input box allows you to select a hue in the HSV color circle (0 - 360).
The slider and the input box allows you to select a saturation: 0 through 100.
The slider and the input box allows you to select a value (luminosity): 0 through 100.
The Preview button makes all changes dynamically so that they can be viewed immediately.