The advanced options of the Text tool (a.k.a. To better understand the saving process, please take a look at the pictures below. Like for example the GIF format, which can be converted to Grayscale or it can handle comments. Now, if you are an expert or a more advanced user, all this 'saving' windows with advanced options is very helpful for different tasks. Now a new window appears with some more advanced options, where again you should just leave everything as it is and click the OK button. You should leave the settings as they are and click the 'Export' button.

This is because the GIF format can only handle grayscale or indexed images. The GIF format also requires a few more clicks, because it first generates a message letting you know that you must export the file before it can be saved as GIF. The regular user should leave these settings as they are and click the OK button.ģ. After you have clicked the 'Export' button, you will be prompted by another window to set the JPEG quality and some advanced options. JPEG format doesn't support transparency, so if for example you save from a transparent format like PNG or GIF to JPEG, it will first pop-up a warning window letting you know that 'JPEG can't handle transparency' and you must export the format before you save the file. Saving a file in a JPG/JPEG format requires a few more mouse clicks. Remember that layers cannot be edited later in this format.Ģ. Now if you work with layers, things get a little complicated, because PNG format can't handle layers so you'll have to export the image first. The normal user should leave all the options as they are and click the OK button. When you save a file in the PNG format, a single window appears asking you for a few advanced options. The examples below cover the most important formats: PNG, JPEG and GIF.ġ. And the problem here is that most of the beginners are used to saving an image file after editing, with a single click.

This happens to be yet another important part where the regular user gets scared, just because GIMP asks the user for a few advanced options (or offers some important information when saving from an image format to a different one) when he saves the files. Are we learning GIMP yet? I sure hope so! I will start today's lesson about GIMP by apologizing to all of you, because I did not mention, in the first part of this guide, how to save different image file formats with GIMP.

How to add text to photos with gimp