>Greetings all, >I am a noob where Gimp is concerned. I have used it as a photo >editor on a fairly cursory level and absolutely love it. UNTIL, I >decided to try to use it to design the cover for my first book. >I tried, I tested and stretched and ran myself mad trying to get it to >do what I wanted and in the end I gave up and gave it to someone else >to do in Photoshop because it was a quick fix and I only have a >limited amount of spare time I can dedicate to these projects. >I am now preparing to publish my second book and I am back to the same >issues I was having before.. >I have a Hi Definition JPG image ( I am currently away from the image >or I could provide the resolution) that I have attempted to put into >GIMP and the book cover I have is 6x9 inch cover, and the image needs >to be a minimum of 300 dpi and when I go in to adjust the size of the >image according to the instructions I have, (entering the dpi level in >the X and then the cover size in the appropriate location, it resets >the DPI level to something smaller. >I had this same issue before. but could not get around it.. I spent >hours going over how to interlace multiple images and it would cause >a sane man to go mad... >And so I am hoping that I can get some help in figuring out this >process. >Thanks in advance.. >Mark
This is so easy as to be untrue. One thing to remember is Gimp is a bitmap editor and works in pixels, however 1. Your Hi Definition JPG might need cropping to the correct 6:9 aspect ratio 2. Use Image menu -> Scale Image then 2a. First set the horizontal and vertical resolution to 300 ppi 2b. Now set the image size to 1800 x 2700 pix (or 6 x 9 inches if pixels really baffle you) The whole thing can be done in a minute. Really dragging it out to 2 minute video demo https://youtu.be/BiXv-dgT1DE -- rich404 (via www.gimpusers.com/forums) _______________________________________________ gimp-user-list mailing list List address: gimp-user-list@gnome.org List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-user-list
