Editing

New

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Mode:: All Modes
Menu:: Image ‣ New
Shortcut:: Alt-N

Creates a new Generated Image.

Open

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Mode:: All Modes
Menu:: Image ‣ Open
Shortcut:: Alt-O

Load image from a file.

Open Cache Render

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Mode:: All Modes
Menu:: Image ‣ Open Cache Render
Shortcut:: Ctrl-R

Load the current scene’s render layers from disk cache, if available. This can be used to save RAM while rendering because the render layers do not have to be saved in RAM. And also for recovering some information from a fail render. For this to work, Cache Result must be enabled.

Replace

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Mode:: All Modes
Menu:: Image ‣ Replace

Replaces the current image throughout the blend-file with another image.

Reload

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Mode:: All Modes
Menu:: Image ‣ Reload
Shortcut:: Alt-R

Reload the image from the file on drive.

Edit Externally

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Mode:: All Modes
Menu:: Image ‣ Edit Externally

Using the Edit Externally tool Blender will open an external image editor, as specified in the Preferences and load in the image to be edited.

Save

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Mode:: All Modes
Menu:: Image ‣ Save
Shortcut:: Alt-S

Save the image, if the image is already a file.

Important

Rendered images are not automatically saved, they have to be saved to drive manually.

Save As

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Mode:: All Modes
Menu:: Image ‣ Save As
Shortcut:: Shift-Alt-S

Save the (rendered) image in a separate file of any type. The image output settings can be configured and are the same as the Render Output Properties.

Save a Copy

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Mode:: All Modes
Menu:: Image ‣ Save a Copy

Using Save as Copy will save the file to a specified name, but will keep the old one open in the Image editor.

Save All Images

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Mode:: All Modes
Menu:: Image ‣ Save All Images

Save all modified images. Packed images will be repacked.

Invert

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Mode:: All Modes
Menu:: Image ‣ Invert

Invert Image Colors: Invert the colors of an image.
Invert Channel: Red, Green, Blue, Alpha

Resize

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Mode:: All Modes
Menu:: Image ‣ Resize

Adjust the image size in pixels.

Flip

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Mode:: All Modes
Menu:: Image ‣ Flip

This operator mirrors the image across a specified axis. Use this to alter the perspective of an image giving an alternative viewpoint; this can make an image more visually appealing or highlight some visual flaw.

Horizontally: Mirrors the image so the left side becomes the right side.
Vertically: Mirrors the image so the top becomes the bottom.

Pack

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Mode:: All Modes
Menu:: Image ‣ Pack

Packs the image into the blend-file. See Packed Data.

Unpack

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Mode:: All Modes
Menu:: Image ‣ Unpack

Unpack the image to a drive.

Extract Palette

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Mode:: All Modes
Menu:: Image ‣ Extract Palette

Extracts a Color Palette from the image for use by other tools.

Generate Grease Pencil

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Mode:: All Modes
Menu:: Image ‣ Generate Grease Pencil

Creates a Grease Pencil object using the currently selected image as a source.