When exporting, change the file extension for it to save properly, or select the format from the drop-down list.

Thankfully GIMP defaults to All images when opening or saving work. There is no CMYK support officially, using a plug-in and manual work you may have good results, see topic.įile Formats - Truly a massive amount of formats supported. The page color options are RGB or Grayscale. Page crop and bleed options are nearly non-existent and you are best off using ruler guides manually - see topic here. Both size and resolution affect each other proportionately and will decide the maximums.

Page Options - Maximum size is 3640.889' x 3640.889' (at 72 ppi), with maximum resolution of 65536 ppi (4' x 4' image). In that regard in over 8 years of use I've had very few problems or a rare crash that occurred. Program Speed - Quick and responsive with no lag unless working on really huge projects, or a bunch of other programs are running in Windows. Graphics - EVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti SC (Superclocked GM107) 1 GB (DDR5 memory) The help does not have a search function however.Īll software is subjective to hardware installed, so with that in mind here is my current workhorse PC (A updated HP Z200 Workstation) specs I used for testing with all updated drivers.ĬPU - Intel Core i5 CPU 660 3.33GHz (2 Cores, 4 Threads)

In the Preferences window (menu item Edit -> Preferences, then in the new window select Help System and change the User manual to the option Use a locally installed copy. Either way once downloaded and installed, it has to be manually switched on too.

* Update the help installer is also found in the download section, under the section GIMP User Manual. The manual can be downloaded and put into GIMP separately, but required much searching - here it is to download (and the source see bottom labelled Official Releases). There is a Help menu, but it accesses it from online and is slower than a browser. A great site for tutorials, videos, and forum is. Online manual, and help/tutorials online as well.

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