GIMP Tags

The GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) writes these tags in its native XCF (eXperimental Computing Facilty) images.

Tag IDTag Name WritableValues / Notes
'header' Header - --> GIMP Header Tags
0x0011 Compression no 0 = None
1 = RLE Encoding
2 = Zlib
3 = Fractal
0x0013 Resolution - --> GIMP Resolution Tags
0x0014 Tattoo no  
0x0015 Parasites - --> GIMP Parasite Tags
0x0016 Units no 1 = Inches
2 = mm
3 = Points
4 = Picas

GIMP Header Tags

Index1Tag Name WritableValues / Notes
9 XCFVersion no 'file' = 0
'v001' = 1
'v002' = 2
14 ImageWidth no  
18 ImageHeight no  
22 ColorMode no 0 = RGB Color
1 = Grayscale
2 = Indexed Color

GIMP Resolution Tags

Index4Tag Name WritableValues / Notes
0 XResolution no  
1 YResolution no  

GIMP Parasite Tags

Tag IDTag Name WritableValues / Notes
'exif-data' ExifData - --> EXIF Tags
'gimp-comment' Comment no  
'gimp-image-metadata' XML - --> XMP XML Tags
'gimp-metadata' XMP - --> XMP Tags
'icc-profile' ICC_Profile - --> ICC_Profile Tags
'icc-profile-name' ICCProfileName no  
'iptc-data' IPTCData - --> IPTC Tags
'jpeg-exif-data' JPEGExifData - --> EXIF Tags

(This document generated automatically by Image::ExifTool::BuildTagLookup)
Last revised Aug 21, 2018

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