The left panel is divided into two parts. In the upper part you have your main directories and your storage devices; you can't modify this list. In the lower part, you have a list of bookmarks; you can add or remove bookmarks. To add a bookmark, you select a directory or a file in the middle pannel and you click on the Add in the left pannel. You can delete a bookmark by selecting it and clicking on the Remove button.

The middle panel displays a list of the files in the current directory. You select a file by a single left click (a double left click opens the file directly; if you have selected a file different from the current one, a message warns you before overwriting).

Right-clicking on the middle panel leads to the “Open Location” dialog that allows you to type a path to a file (you can also open this dialog by Ctrl+L).

The selected image is displayed in the Preview if it is an image created by GIMP. File size, resolution and composition are displayed below preview.

	Tip
	If your image has been modified by another program, click on preview to update it.

Above the middle panel, the path of the current directory is displayed: you can navigate along this path by clicking on an element.

"All files" by default. This means that all file types will be displayed in the middle panel, even if they are not image. You can filter the list for a particular file type.

Select File Type: In most cases you don't need to pay any attention to this, because GIMP can determine the file type automatically. In a few rare situations, neither the file extension nor internal information suffice to tell GIMP the file type. If this happens, you can set it by selecting it from the list.