On 9/20/05, Helen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Photos from my camera are huge in Gimp, so
Yeah, I noticed that too. You'd think they're unnecessary (the millions of extra dots) - until you print. Funny thing this world is. Annoying how you can get away with 72 dpi on a monitor, yet for printing you need something like 4800x2400 dpi. Can't tell until you print... and if you don't ever print (you tell someone else to do so) then it's really annoying. > I use Scale Image to get them small enough to > fit into a photo frame. Am I losing picture quality Digital photo frame or physical (e.g. printing out)? > when I Scale image to make it smaller? If so, is Yes, you are losing quality. You reduce the number of dots in the image, which reduces the number of dots per inch in the final printout. I'm assuming you're printing out, yes? Of course, the type of scaling affects the accuracy of the loss... but it's still loss, yes. > there a way to reduce an image without losing > quality? Yes; change the DPI (dots per inch) in the Print Size dialog, instead of using Scale. It may help to uncheck "dot for dot" in the view/zoom menu whatsit, so that you get an approximation of what it should appear on paper size on the monitor (provided you gave it correct DPI values when you configured GIMP the first time). The values given in the dialogue for size are pretty accurate too, provided your printer supports them. As a side note, IIRC Print in GIMP on Linux will adjust the size of the picture by scaling up or down to the whole page by default if you don't specify otherwise, and a print "size" can also be specified there, I believe. In Windows, because it uses the Windows print dialogue, this is only specified in the Print Size dialogue, I believe. > Helen, using jpeg image format on Gimp 2.2.4 OS? (Operating System?) Hope I was helpful. -- ~Mike - Just my two cents - No man is an island, and no man is unable. _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
