* elizabeth whitlock [08-16-13 15:44]:

Hi Im looking for the gimp equivellent to photoshops View>extras. If there is one. I need to open a jpg file with guides in it, but they do not show up when I open the file.

don't know photoshop, but if you really mean guides or perhaps grid, you can display either via the menu "view" above the image to show grid and/or guides. You can configure them in the preferences menu to always be on.

I personally keep guides on all the time and only enable grid display when I find it useful rather than a distraction.

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On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 11:42 PM, elizabeth whitlock wrote:

Hi Im looking for the gimp equivellent to photoshops View>extras. If there is one. I need to open a jpg file with guides in it, but they do not show up when I open the file. Thank you

JPEG doesn't support storing guides. You want an impossible thing :)

Alexandre

On 17.08.2013 04:56, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:

On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 11:42 PM, elizabeth whitlock wrote:

Hi Im looking for the gimp equivellent to photoshops View>extras. If there is one. I need to open a jpg file with guides in it, but they do not show up when I open the file. Thank you

JPEG doesn't support storing guides. You want an impossible thing :)

They could be using an additional APPn marker. Maybe there's a reason why those are called 'application-specific', though, even with that widespread agreement on what APP0 and APP1 are used for.

Maybe GIMP should just store its own application-specific metadata in any image format out there, seems to be common practice :)

Regards,
Michael