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File Menu

This document describes the options in the File menu.

New

Create a new image. A dialog allows choosing the dimensions of the new image. LodePaint will remember the chosen values even after closing and restarting the program.

Open

Opens an image file. In the file dialog, under "ext", the available image file formats that are supported are shown.

Reload

Reloads the last opened image file from disk, all changes after the last change are undone and not redoable anymore.

Recent

This is a submenu with the last opened or saved filenames. Once some files are available in here, just click on it to directly open this image.

Save

Save the image to the location where it was last saved to or opened from. This overwrites without asking confirmation! If no path is known yet (because it's a new image, or, because the image has a file type that isn't supported for saving), it asks for a different filename and type with a file dialog.

Save As

Shows a file dialog to choose filename and file type to save the image to.

Depending on the color mode of the image, different file formats (or none at all!) may be available to save to.

Save Copy As

Save the image to a certain file, but don't change the path of the image, so that the "Save" option uses the previous path instead of the path you chose here.

Exit

Exits the program.

The File Dialog

Depending on your operating system, LodePaint might show the native file dialog of your operating system, or a built-in one. The built-in file dialog for opening and saving files is custom made and might be different than what you know, therefore I'll explain it a bit in this manual. You can skip this section if you get the native file dialog that you already know in LodePaint.

For now it can be used like this: you can go to the folder you want using the large list. The "Up" button in the top right corner allows browing to directories of a level higher. In Windows, pressing "Up" often enough brings you to a list of all drives. The filename inside the selected dir should be typed in the "file:" input line (or can be selected in the large list if the file already exists). When saving to a new file it is adviced to leave the checkbox "automatically add extension" enabled. Otherwise, it does NOT automatically add it on its own yet and can, confusingly, create files without extension or a wrong extension if you type a wrong one.

The file dialog also features a "Sug" dropdown menu, where sug means "suggested". This will list all directories recently used. This makes it very easy to jump quickly to directories with files you're currently active in. This is a sort of automatically generated favorites list.

Here's the meaning of each item in the file dialog:

Legal Stuff

This software is provided 'as-is', without any express or implied warranty. In no event will the authors be held liable for any damages arising from the use of this software.

Copyright (c) 2009-2010 by Lode Vandevenne.

Note: No images? Get the full manual at http://sourceforge.net/projects/lodepaint/files/LodePaint_Manual_Full.zip/download/. The full manual with images is released separately because the images filesize is larger than that of the program!