The
dialog lets you load an image from a network location, specified by a URI, in any of the formats that GIMP supports.You can access to this command from the Toolbox menubar or the image menubar through
→ .The most typical schemes to open images with are:
to open an image from a local drive
You can omit the «file://» prefix and open images simply by putting an absolute or relative path and filename in here.
The default base directory for relative paths depends on your
operating system. It is typically
/home/<username>/
on Linux,
C:\Documents and
Settings\<username>\My Documents\My Images\
on Windows and
/Users/<username>/
on Mac OS X.
to open an image from a ftp server
to load an image from a website
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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. Even if this command makes it very easy to grab images from websites: Please respect the copyright! Images, even if published on the Internet are not always free to be used for you. |