# Templates Dialog

The Templates dialog

Templates are pre-defined image settings that you can use to quickly create a new image with your preferred dimensions, resolution etc. GIMP comes with a lot of templates installed, but you can also create your own. When you create a new image, you can access the list of existing templates to choose one to be used as base for your new image. The Templates dialog allows you to manage these templates.

## Activating the Dialog

This dialog is a dockable dialog; see the section for help on manipulating it.

You can access it:

- from the main menu: Windows Dockable Dialogs Templates .

- from the Tab menu in any dockable dialog by clicking on and selecting Add Tab Templates .

## 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 the buttons.

### Grid/List modes

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.

Ctrl F in a list view opens a search field. See

### Buttons at the bottom

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 creates a new image with the settings defined in 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 is documented next.

Edit the selected template

  Clicking on this button opens the Edit Template dialog where you can adjust the image related settings for the selected template.

Delete the selected template

  This deletes the selected template after asking for confirmation.

  Every template is stored in a `templaterc` file in your personal GIMP directory. If you want to restore some deleted templates, you can copy or append template entries to your file from the master `templaterc` file in the `etc/gimp/2.0` directory of GIMP's system folder.

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