2.2. Open

The dialog allows you to load an existing image from your harddrive or an external medium.

Activate Dialog

  • The dialog for open an image can be called in the following order, from the toolbox and image-menu: File/ Open.

  • You can open the Dialog by using a keyboard shortcut: Ctrl+O

File browsing

Folders, Files, Preview

Three windows are displayed. In the Folders window, you can select the folder (the directory) to be explored. You can go back up the folder hierarchy by using "../". If you want to refresh the current directory, clicK on "./". In the Files window, the selected folder files are displayed. You select a file by a single left click (a double left click opens the image directly). The selected file is displayed in the Preview if it is an image recognized by Gimp. Clic in the preview to generate or update the preview.

With Ctrl+click you can select more than one file and so, you can open several images at the same time.

File size, resolution and composition are displayed under Preview.

Selection

After clicking on this text box, you can input a file name. You enjoy autocompletion: you enter first letters of the file and press TAB key. Only files beginning by these letters will be displayed in Files window, and if only one file has these letters, its name will automatically be displayed in text box. It's a handy way to find a file out of a large list.

Determine File Type

Automatic option allows file type to be determined automatically. With Linux, file extensions (.bmp, .png...) is not priority. File type is determined according to proper file characteristics. In some exceptionnal cases, when Gimp doesn't recognize file type, you can set it by selecting it in the dropping list. Only files with this type can then be openned.

Three buttons at top

Three buttons at top of window: Create a file, Delete File and Rename File are self-explanatory.