# Channels Context Menu

Channel Context Menu

Overview

  You can get the channel context menu by right clicking on a channel. Several of the operations on channels are also available through buttons at the bottom of the channels list. Those operations are documented there.

  New Channel…
  Raise Channels
  Lower Channels
  Duplicate Channels
  Delete Channels

    See Managing channels.

  Edit Channel Attributes…

    Only available for selection masks. Here you can change the Channel name, the Color tag, the channel attributes and lock attributes, and finally the Opacity and color used for the mask in the image window. A click on the color button displays the GIMP color selector where you can change the mask color.

  Color Tags

    Only available for selection masks. This allows you to assign a color tag to a channel. If you have a lot of channels this can make it easier to identify them by giving related channels the same color tag. To remove the color tag choose None.

  Channels to Selection

    The selection derived from a channel replaces the previously active selection.

  Add Channels to Selection

    The selection derived from a channel is added to the active selection. The final selection is merged from both.

  Subtract Channels from Selection

    The final selection is the subtraction of the selection derived from a channel from the active selection.

  Intersect Channels with Selection

    The final selection is the intersection of the selection derived from a channel with the active one. Only the selected parts common to both are kept.

Channels Menu