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CHAPTER 3 INTRODUCTION TO LAYERS SAVE YOUR WORK To save the results of your hard work when you re gimping an image with multiple layers, use the GIMP s native format: XCF. The XCF format saves everything about the image: all the layers, the current selection, any paths or guides (those will be discussed in later chapters) in short, all the details you need to continue working on the image later. In the GIMP s Save As dialog, if you type a file name ending in .xcf , the GIMP will automatically save to the right type. Of course, once you save as XCF, it will continue doing so until you tell it otherwise. Since XCF files can be quite large, you can use .xcf.gz or .xcf.bz2 to tell the GIMP to use the gzip or bunzip compression formats. The disadvantage of XCF format? No other program can read it. You should definitely use XCF to save a copy of the image with all the parts preserved. But once you ve finished editing, you ll want to use File . Save a Copy… to save another copy of the file in a more standard format, such as JPEG, PNG, or GIF (see Chapter 2, Image File Types). Save frequently. Get into the habit of pressing Control+S whenever you get to a place where you re satisfied with a set of changes. Then you re protected against unforeseen events such as computer crashes, power losses, or alien invasions. Changing Colors Now that the text is the right size, it becomes more obvious that it s boring in plain old black. It s time for another color. When you created text, it showed up as black because it used the GIMP s current foreground color, the foremost of the two color swatches in the Toolbox window (Figure 3-14). (It s black in Figure 3-14, meaning black is the current foreground color.) Any text you add to the image, or any lines you draw, will be in this color. Behind the foreground color is another swatch showing the background color. The most common use of the background color swatch is to save a second foreground color. You can swap foreground and background by clicking on the small arrow to the upper-right of the two swatches. The background color does have other uses more consistent with its name. Erasing or clearing uses the background color in images that lack transparency. Some drawing tools have options to use the background color instead of foreground in certain circumstances (you will see an example at the end of this chapter and more details in Chapter 4). To change either the foreground or background color, click on the appropriate color swatch in the Toolbox.
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