>Hello, I am new to gimp and I appreciate any input and apologize in >advance if I don't explain my issue correctly. I am trying to make a >business card sized print that contains three separate images. I >resize (with the print size option) the individual layers and >separately they print out at the requested size. However, when i try >to combine them as layers, there's one particular image that won't >resize in the printed document, it always takes on the dimensions of >the other two layers. If I rescale the images first then I don't have >this problem. I don't know if I should rescale though. All I want to >do is achieve the highest possibly quality for a small print, >approximately 2.5 X 2 inches. Thanks!
Difficult to explain in a few words, but as a basic, Gimp works in pixels not inches (or other real world dimensions) For a biz-card make a template - a base layer, w" x h" @ 300 pixels-per-inch. 2.5" x 2" would be 750 x 600 pixels. Now open as layers each of the images you want to use. Gimp menu: File -> Open as Layers Might look like attachment 1 where everything is wrong size, wrong place. For each layer use Layer -> Scale layer and resize to suit. Then use the move tool to position. Might look like attachment 2 The yellow dotted line is a layer boundary. Now you can go into Image -> Print Size and if required set the print size to 2.5" x 2" and the resolution should follow suit to 300 dpi. rich: www.gimp-forum.net Attachments: * http://www.gimpusers.com/system/attachments/437/original/notscaled.jpg * http://www.gimpusers.com/system/attachments/438/original/scaled-layer.jpg -- rich2005 (via www.gimpusers.com/forums) _______________________________________________ gimp-user-list mailing list List address: [email protected] List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-user-list
