.GPL

📌 The .GPL file pattern serves for processing and handling of color palettes designed for usage with GIMP or another accustomed image editing suite. Particularly, the .GPL file schema records are composed of parameters that allow you to fluently load and choose from a range of associated color hues while the proper image file is being edited. You may design .GPL file content in GIMP utility, or you can draw them with the interaction of a distinguished, pinpoint tool for creation of .GPL color palettes, such as Paletton. Proficient and skillful graphic designers make use of color palettes to arrange and organize specific colors together, correspondingly facilitating an outcome selection of desirable colors when drawing an image. For instance, a sophisticated graphic designer might create a .GPL color palette file for a certain brand, in order to ensure they make a choice of correct colors while designing the marketing materials of a respective brand. GIMP and a few miscellaneous image editing package sets permit users to import, save, and create appropriate color palettes stored as .GPL extension instances. These corresponding .GPL data objects are distinguished as plain textual entries that comprise RGB values for each individual color involved into the palette. As the practice uncovers, .GPL file resources are comprehended as long as they always start with the header value of GIMP Palette.

How to open an .GPL file?

📌 The .GPL file build-up may be retrieved, explored, and opened by GIMP or Piskel image editors, common text editors, such as Microsoft Notepad, GitHub Atom, Apple TextEdit or any other accessible tool, capable of reading and researching the simple .GPL associated text files. In you make an attempt to to import the .GPL bundled color palette into GIMP suite, below you can find a precise instruction how to implement that idea:

• open the GIMP suite and pick Windows -> Dockable Dialogs -> Palettes options among the affordable menu selections
• when the Palettes window finally appears on the screen, right-click in it and pick Import Palette… branch node
• in the Import a New Palette form, make a selection of the Palette file radio button. Then make a choice of the Import File icon
• navigate to and open up your preferred .GPL data file item.

If you desire to review and track the RGB values integrated into a corresponding .GPL file palette, make use of any accustomed text editor for any desirable desktop architecture or platform, including Linux and macOS.