It is lossless if the image has under 256 color or otherwise it become lossy.
Graphic Interchange Format is often used for screenshots and computer graphics. Other GIMP's native format includes GIMP Brush (.gbr), GIMP Animated Brush (.gih), and GIMP Pattern (.pat).īitmap is an uncompressed image format, which is the internal image format for Windows and OS/2 Graphic Subsystem. If you must exchange a XCF file, you can use the compress option, which uses either gzip (using xcf.gz/gz/xcfgz extension) or bzip2 (using xcf.bz2/bz2/xcfbz2 extension) compression. XCF images take up a lot of disk space, and are not supported by most image viewers, which is why XCF is more suitable for saving images for future editing (rather than image exchange). GIMP's native format which will preserve all image data, including layer, the current selection, channels, transparency, paths and guides. These file formats are well known and their usage is quite widespread. But that's another lesson! Popular File Formats
Of course, if you're saving for print, you'd need to ensure that your images were created at a high enough resolution. For print you'd be looking at EPS or TIFF, and maybe PSP (if you're exchanging images with a designer who has Adobe Photoshop). Now that you've saved your image in XCF format, here's a list of the other image formats that GIMP supports.ĭon't worry about memorizing these just yet! When it comes time to save your images, the main image formats for the web are JPEG, GIF, and PNG.
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