In this video we demonstrate how to save a project in Gimp; we also show you all how to save an image file.
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You can download Gimp here: https://www.gimp.org/downloads/
Video Transcript:
Today I am going to demonstrate how to save a project in Gimp, and how to save an image file in Gimp. Ok, first I am going to open an image; Ah, I have my folder on the desktop, it is the gimp images folder; Whatever folder you use is 100% up to you. Let’s just open this Mute Swan here; ok, and now I am going to save the project file. I am going to go to the FILE menu; SAVE AS, click SAVE AS, and DESKTOP, and for the sake of this demonstration I am using Gimp Projects; and I am going to save it as mute_swan_1a, and the file extension here is XCF; its a .xcf file; and I am going to just click SAVE here.
Ok, now our project is SAVED. Let’s just go to Gimp Projects, and we can see that it’s there. I opened the folder here from the desktop, Gimp Projects, and we can see the project file is saved. Now let’s go back to our project, and do little bit of editing; just to show that we have saved the file.
I am going to add some text to the image. Ok, to add text to the image, I am going to click this TEXT TOOL, CREATE OR EDIT TEXT LAYERS; and I am going to enter the text SirBoring.Com. 0k, and that’s our text. And now I am going to save the image file itself, so I am going to click FILE, and to do this you have to click EXPORT AS; is the best option. Ok; so it’s right now mute_swan_1a.png, but I would recommend to save it as a JPEG; so we can click here, select FILE TYPE and then in brackets it says BY EXTENSISON; so we’ll scroll down to JPEG IMAGE, and now click the EXPORT button here; and now we have another prompt box full of options, and I’m just going to say quality to 100%, is what I render it… export it as, pardon me and most of the stuff that’s checked here is fine the way it is, we don’t need to worry about that. Ah… you could also check USE QUALITY SETTINGS FROM ORIGINAL IMAGE, but no, I would leave that unchecked and select 100% for yourself. You may want to make your own decision there; but I usually click 100%; it’s 100; the quality is 100, and now I am going to hit EXPORT, and export the image; ok; now I exported the image to Gimp Projects, and now let’s just go see it.
Ok; I’m opening the Gimp Projects folder, and here is our image SirBoring.Com. You can see the text is on it; I opened it in another program; this is Paint here; Microsoft Paint. Ok, now I am going to copy the image and put it in my Gimp Images folder. And now let’s open that file with Gimp; OPEN WITH Gimp. Ok; and there it is.
