Follow Techotopia on Twitter

On-line Guides
All Guides
eBook Store
iOS / Android
Linux for Beginners
Office Productivity
Linux Installation
Linux Security
Linux Utilities
Linux Virtualization
Linux Kernel
System/Network Admin
Programming
Scripting Languages
Development Tools
Web Development
GUI Toolkits/Desktop
Databases
Mail Systems
openSolaris
Eclipse Documentation
Techotopia.com
Virtuatopia.com
Answertopia.com

How To Guides
Virtualization
General System Admin
Linux Security
Linux Filesystems
Web Servers
Graphics & Desktop
PC Hardware
Windows
Problem Solutions
Privacy Policy

  




 

 

2.4.  Open

The Open command activates a dialog that lets you load an existing image from your hard-drive or an external medium. For alternative, and sometimes more convenient, ways of opening files, see the Files section.

2.4.1.  Activate Dialog

  • You can access the Open dialog from an image window through: FileOpen.

  • You can also open the Dialog by using the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+O.

2.4.2.  File browsing

Figure 15.11.  Open Dialog

Open Dialog

This browser looks like other browsers and it is mostly self-explanatory. It has some particuliar features nevertheless.

  1. The Type a file name toggles beetwen add and remove the Location text box where you can type a path to an image file. If you don't type any path, the name of the selected file will be displayed. You can also type the first letters of the name: it will be auto-completed and a list of file names beginning with these letters will be displayed.

    The Ctrl+L key combination has the same action as this button.

  2. The path to the current folder is displayed. You can navigate along this path by clicking on an element.

  3. Create a folder button: this button lets you add a new folder in the current folder. For some strange reason, this button is not always present and you can't remove this new folder.

  4. Search: this new option is not very handy. You can't set where to search.

    Recently used: no comment.

  5. Here, you can access to your main folders and to your store devices.

  6. Here, you can add bookmarks to folders, by using the Add or the Add to Bookmarks option you get by right-clicking a folder in the central pannel, and also remove them.

  7. The contents of the selected folder is displayed here. Change your current folder by double left clicking on a folder in this panel. Select a file with a single left click. You can then open the file you have selected by clicking on the Open button. A double left click opens the file directly. Please note that you can open image files only.

    Right-clicking a folder name opens a context menu:

    Figure 15.12.  The folder context menu

    The folder context menu

  8. The selected image is displayed in the Preview window. If it is an image created by GIMP, file size, resolution and image composition are displayed below the preview window.

    [Tip] Tip

    If your image has been modified by another program, click on the Preview window to update it.

  9. By clicking the Add button, you add the selected folder to bookmarks.

    By clicking the Remove, you remove the selected bookmark from the list.

  10. You will generally prefer to to display the names of All images. You can also select All files. You can also limit yourself to a particular type of image (GIF, JPG, PNG ...).

  11. Determine File Type: In most cases you don't need to pay any attention to this, because the GIMP can determine the file type automatically. In a few rare situations, neither the file extension nor internal information in the file are enough to tell GIMP the file type. If this happens, you can set it by selecting it from the list.


 
 
  Published under the terms of the GNU General Public License Design by Interspire