shrinking images always involves some form of smoothing, and some amount of sharpening afterwards is generally useful. i usually do this:
[Image] -> [Scale Image...] in the dialog set widths Quality interpolation -> Cubic (Best) i think the interpolation method (linear versus cubic) is probably not critical for shrinking an image, but don't select "none." then once the image is scaled: [Filters] -> [Enhance] -> [Unsharp Mask...] then in Unsharp Mask: Radius: 0.1 Amount: 0.50 to 1.00 Threshold: 0 use the Preview checkbox to compare before/after. beware: excess Amounts sometimes make the image seen snappier at first glance, but have a cheap videotape look to them compared with the original. i found this set of pages very helpful when i was starting to work with scanners and such. http://www.scantips.com/simple6.html good luck. -rei On Feb24 15:46, Martin Nordholts wrote: > Andrea Linville wrote: > > I have been having a heck of a time trying to shrink > > my screenshots to smaller pics without making them > > look very VERY fuzzy and unfocused. What can a rather > > unexperienced user of GIMP do to help avoid this when > > attempting to resize pictures? > > > > Thank you in advance... > > Andrea > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > > Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. > > http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs > > _______________________________________________ > > Gimp-user mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user > > > > Hi > > It is often enough to just Filter -> Enhance -> Sharpen... after scaling > down to make the scaled down version look much better. > > Martin Nordholts > _______________________________________________ > Gimp-user mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user -- Rei Shinozuka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ridgewood, New Jersey _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
