I totally understood what you both said - but I didn't know that I had to save it both ways - I only saved it, or exported it at a .jpg... Does that mean I can't recover the .xcf?
On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 3:54 PM, Daniel Smith <opened...@gmail.com> wrote: > what he said. that's what i meant when i said before that you would > still have the layers, that you had the .xcf file somewhere. > :) > dan > > On 11/18/12, Burnie West <w...@ieee.org> wrote: > > On 11/18/2012 12:09 PM, jenn golden wrote: > >> Is there a way to get back all of your layers once you save a file and > >> close > >> out of it? I am new and am creating magazince covers - All I need to do > is > >> > >> change the pic - but did not want to have to re-create the entire cover > if > >> I > >> did not need too.... Thanks! > > Are you using gimp 2.8? If so, when you "save" the file all the layers > are > > retained (unless you specifically merged them). You would "export" to > (e.g.) > > jpg > > or png, and then save to xcf format. Loading the .xcf version should > still > > have > > all the layers. Loading the exported .png or .jpg version would not. > > > > -- Burnie > > _______________________________________________ > > gimp-user-list mailing list > > gimp-user-list@gnome.org > > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list > > > _______________________________________________ > gimp-user-list mailing list > gimp-user-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list >
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