Creating new Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 5.3 Opening Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . depth of 8 bits. GIMP can now load 16 and 32 bits images, and this range can be much larger. Figure 5.3 Example of an image with alpha channel (a) Red chan- nel (b) Green channel (c) Blue chan- nel (d) image file. More information about the Create a new image dialog can be found in Section 16.2.2. 5.3 Opening Files There are several ways of opening an existing image in GIMP: 5.3.1 Open File The most

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 5.3 Opening Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . there are large areas with slowly varying color gradients, the difference may be perceptible. Figure 5.3: Example of an image with alpha channel (a) Red channel (b) Green channel (c) Blue channel (d) The or using the standard values. More information about this dialog can be found in Section 14.5.2. 5.3 Opening Files There are several ways of opening an existing image in GIMP: 5.3.1 Open File The most

Options • Color, Swatches, Brushes and Actions • History • Layers, Channels and Paths. Figure 5.3 The Image Resize dialog. Notice that you resize the canvas and not the size of the layers because Gimp