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## 18. Templates

### Dialog

The Templates dialog

Templates are templates for an image format to be created. Gimp offers you a lot of templates and you can create your owns. When you create a New image, you can access to the list of existing templates but you can't manage them. The "Templates" dialog allows you to manage all these templates.

The Templates dialog is a dockable dialog; see the section on Dialogs and Docking for help on manipulating it. It can be activated in two ways:

- From the Toolbox menu: File->Dialogs->Templates.

- From an image menu: Dialogs->Templates.

In the Tab menu for the Templates dialog, you can choose between View as Grid and View as List. In Grid mode, templates are laid out in a rectangular array of identical icons (unless you gave them a particular icon, as we will see later). Only the name of the selected template is displayed. In List mode, they are lined up vertically; icons are identical too; all names are displayed.

In this Tab menu, the Preview Size option allows you to change the size of thumbnails.

### Using the Templates dialog

You select a template by clicking on its icon. Right clicking reveals a local menu that offers the same functions as buttons.

The buttons at the bottom of the dialog allow you to operate on templates in several ways:

Create a new image from the selected template

  Clicking on this button opens the Create a new image on the model of the selected template.

Create a new template

  Clicking on this button opens the New template dialog, identical to the Edit Template dialog, that we will see below.

Duplicate the selected template

  Clicking on this button opens the Edit Template dialog that we are going to study now.

Edit the selected template

  Clicking on this button opens the Edit Template dialog.

Delete the selected template

  No comment.

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