
But this is not really convenient as it adds one redundant step and moreover the original work is left open unsaved which you have to kill afterwards.


The new option to save your work as GPEG or PNG or other popular formats is to export these files using Ctl+Shift+E key. What is the new option to save the work in JEPG or PNG format in GIMP? Now if you press Ctrl+S to save your work, all you can see is the option of saving your image in XCF, bzip or gzip archive file. But GIMP 2.8 has changed this popular way of saving your work. In previous versions of GIMP when you used Ctrl+S, it used to give you the option of saving in different formats such as JPEG or PNG etc.

Most of the normal computer users are used to of using shortcut Ctrl+S to save their work. The latest version of the most popular free and open source photo editing software GIMP has brought some changes that have irked quite a few people.
