The Book of GIMP

9.4 Creating, Loading, Saving, and Exporting Files

An image loaded into GIMP is stored in the main memory of your computer, but when you save the image, it’s stored as a file. In this section, we discuss how you can load images from a file and save or export your images to a file.

Creating a New Image

The first part of the Image: File menu (see Figure 9-31) deals with creating or opening an image. In this section, we look at the first two entries, which let you create a new image.

When you select Image: File > New or press , the dialog shown in Figure 9-32 appears. Click ADVANCED OPTIONS to expand the dialog as shown. The suggested IMAGE SIZE is either ...