GIMP Version: 2.8.14
Operating System: Linux
OS Version: Slackware
GIMP Experience: Intermediate Level

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Why is that when I create a template from a new image then open the template later the only thing the template saves is the canvas size? My default image is transparent background, but templates always open with a white background and no alpha channel.

On a related note, how do I change the default font?

Thanks for that. It's so aggravating seeing "Sans Bold" pop up every time when I never use that font.

I guess that trick will also let me change the default brush dynamics as well.

I'd hate to use that. That would mean it would open up each time with whatever I had set last time. Which could be any sort of goofiness. I'd much rather have it open the same every time and then commence the goofiness.

At the bottom of the Edit Template Dialog open the Advanced options.
Fill with: Transparent. This automatically has an Alpha Channel.

How did I miss that? Thanks. Now I just have to open and edit 347562 templates. Or something close to that.

Okay, that's only when I open a template though. Why doesn't it save the Alpha Channel when I create a template from an image that already has an Alpha Channel? I don't have to add an Alpha Channel when I open a new image because I have that set as default. I don't understand why I should have to add an Alpha every time I open a template when the default is Alpha and the prototype for the template had Alpha.

What are trying to achieve specifically?

When I open a template I want it to work just like opening a new image; all my default settings are active and I don't have to make adjustments before beginning to work. Right now, it doesn't do that. I have to add the Alpha Channel and erase the white background before I start the actual work.

Funny that I'm on a graphic design forum and it took me this long to figure out that maybe, just maybe, pictures might help.

Here are my default settings;


So why do I get this when I open a template that was created with those settings?

But that's what I don't understand. Why should I have to check anything? I already checked it all when I made the template in the first place. I had an image with all my default settings, I set it to the required size, then I used "create template". Why does it take an image with a transparent background and turn it into a white background?

If it's originally from the Templates Dialog, I'm not sure what wrong.
Try adjusting these settings, Edit > Preferences > Default Image

As far as I know it's the default tool. I haven't installed anything to create templates. And it doesn't offer much of a dialog. I go to File>Create Template and I get this;

No options to change anything.


Those are the settings I adjusted to set my default image in the first place.

And that's why I don't understand why I get what I get. Unless "default" means something different to the developers than it means to me.

To make, edit, remove Templates, Windows → Dockable Dialogs → Templates

Well I'll be... I never knew that was an available dialog. Thanks. Works perfectly. But I'm still baffled as to why it doesn't save templates EXACTLY as they were created.