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14.5.4 Open Location

The Open Location dialog lets you load an image from a network location, speciﬁed by a URI, in any of the formats that

GIMP supports, or from a path to your hard disk or any drive. The default directory name is /home/<username>/ on Linux

and C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\My Documents\My Images\ on Windows, which is used as the base of the relative

address. You can also enter an absolute path.

Tip

When you are visiting an Internet site, you can right-click on an image and choose ‘Copy link address’ in the drop-down

menu. Then paste it in the ‘Open Location’ dialog to open it in GIMP.

14.5.4.1 Activating the Command

• You can access this command from the Toolbox menubar or the image menubar through File → Open Location.

14.5.4.2 Description of the dialog window

Figure 14.28: The ‘Open Location’ dialog window

14.5.5 Open Recent

Selecting Open Recent displays a submenu with the names of the ﬁles that you have opened recently in GIMP. Simply click on

a name to reopen it. You can customize the maximum number of items shown in the menu, by changing the Open Recent Menu

Size value in the Interface page of the Preferences dialog. See the Document History dialog at the bottom of the Open Recent

submenu, if you cannot ﬁnd your image.

14.5.5.1 Activating the Command

• You can access this command from the Toolbox menubar or the image menubar through File → Open Recent,

• or by using the keyboard shortcut Ctrl-O.

14.5.6 Open as Layer

The Open Image as layer dialog is identical to the Open Image dialog. With this dialog, you can open an image ﬁle, which is

added to the current image as the top layer in the stack.

14.5.6.1 Activating the Command

• You can access this command from the image menubar through File → Open as layer,

• or by using the keyboard shortcut Ctrl-Alt-O.