Introduction

Header

Image Menu

New Image

Creates a new Generated Image.

Open Image

Load image from a file.

Read Render Layers

ToDo.

Save All Images

ToDo.

Replace Image

Replaces the current image, while preserving the link to UV maps, with an selected file.

Reload Image

Reloading the image from an external file.

Save Image

Save the image, if the image is already a file Alt-S.

Save As Image

Save the (rendered) image in a separate file F3 or you want to save it under a different name.

Save a Copy

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

Edit Externally

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

Invert

Invert Image Colors

Invert the colors of an image.

Invert Channel

Red, Green, Blue, Alpha

Pack

Pack Image

Pack As PNG

Packs the image inside the blend-file. See Pack and Unpack Data.

Important

Rendered images had to be saved externally or packed.

Controls

Image

Data-block menu used for selecting images. When an image has been loaded or created in the UV/Image editor, the Image panel appears in the Properties region. See Image Settings.

• Render Result
• Viewer Node

Pin Image

Displays current image regardless of selected object.

Multi-Layer

When a rendered image is displayed in the UV/Image Editor, several new menu items become available.

Slot

You can save successive renders into the render buffer by selecting a new slot before rendering. If an image has been rendered to a slot, it can be viewed by selecting that slot. Empty slots appear as blank grids in the UV/Image editor. Use the J and Alt-J to cycle forwards and backwards through saved renders.

Render Layer

If you are using Render Layers, use this menu to select which layer is displayed.

Render Pass

If you are using Render Passes, use this menu to select which pass is displayed.

Channels

Draw Channels

The radio buttons set which channels of the image are displayed.

RGBA

Replaces transparent pixels with background checkerboard, denoting the alpha channel.

RGB

Draw the colored image, without alpha channel.

Alpha

Displays the Alpha channel a gray-scale image. White areas are opaque, black areas have an alpha of 0.

Z-Buffer

Display the depth from the camera, from Clip Start to Clip End, as specified in the Camera settings.

Red, Green, Blue

Single Color Channel visualized as a gray-scale image.

Main View

When LMB dragging mouse the color under the cursor is shown in the footer as well the cursor position and the color values in the RGBA, HSV and Luminance color space.