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Introduction to the View Menu
This section describes the View menu, which contains commands that affect the visibility
or appearance of the image and various elements of the interface.
Besides the commands described here, you may also find other entries in the menu. They
are not part of GIMP itself, but have been added by extensions (plug-ins). You can find
information about the functionality of a plug-in by referring to its documentation.
Activating the Command
• You can access this command from the image menubar through View New View .
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You can delete a view by closing its window. If you close the last window displaying an
image, the image itself is closed. However, if you have made changes to the image which
you have not yet saved, you are asked for confirmation.
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The New View command creates a new image window for the current image, which you
can set up differently from the existing display. You can create multiple views of any
image, which are numbered .1, .2, etc., but only the zoom factor and other viewing
options may be different. Any changes, other than viewing changes, which you make in
one window also appear in the other displays which show the same image. The new views
are not separate image files; they are simply different aspects of the same image. You
might use multiple views, for example, if you were working on individual pixels at a high
zoom factor. You could then see the effects your changes would have on the image at a
normal size.
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