Quoting JD Lancaster :
I may be wrong, but I believe that in GIMP you manipulate images you
open as xcf files, and you must export to get different file types,
such as jpg.
Mostly right. As Eric, the original poster, noted, you can open images
of different file types, but recent versions
gimp saves the project collection (layers, masks, channels, paths ect) as .xcf
by default. to convert the project image to another file type, you must go to
File > Export.
for a full list of exportable file formats, select the " [+] Select File Type
(by extention) " tab in the bottom left to show/
I am new to GIMP and using version 2.8.14 on a Mac with Yosemite. If I want to
convert an image to a tif file I use Save or Save as but do not get the tif
option. If I go to Export, tif is an option. However when I use the tif option
it saves the file as a png and NOT as a tif. Help! Could you resp
On 04/18/2015 05:31 PM, charneys wrote:
> I am new to GIMP and using version 2.8.14 on a Mac with Yosemite. If I want to
> convert an image to a tif file I use Save or Save as but do not get the tif
> option. If I go to Export, tif is an option. However when I use the tif option
> it saves the f
On Sat, 2015-04-18 at 17:31 +0200, charneys wrote:
> I am new to GIMP and using version 2.8.14 on a Mac with Yosemite. If
> I want to
> convert an image to a tif file I use Save or Save as but do not get
> the tif
> option. If I go to Export, tif is an option. However when I use the
> tif option
He probably determined that it's a PNG file since GIMP automatically
defaults to PNG during export?
On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 5:18 PM, Liam R. E. Quin wrote:
> On Sat, 2015-04-18 at 17:31 +0200, charneys wrote:
>> I am new to GIMP and using version 2.8.14 on a Mac with Yosemite. If
>> I want to
>>
On 04/18/2015 11:18 PM, Liam R. E. Quin wrote:
> On Sat, 2015-04-18 at 17:31 +0200, charneys wrote:
>> If I go to Export, tif is an option. However when I use the tif
>> option it saves the file as a png and NOT as a tif.
>
> Export is correct.
>
> How did you determine that you ended up with
On 04/18/2015 06:42 PM, Michael Schumacher wrote:
> If you use the actual file type selector, then the file extension in the
> Name: entry will actually be changed accordingly.
In practice, doing Export (control+e is your friend) then naming the
file with the correct extension tells the GIMP all
