Jaime Seuma schreef: > Hello > > I use The Gimp to edit my photographs, which I shoot with a Canon EOS 50D. > I shoot always RAW, and use the propietary Canon software (DPP) to > process the pictures a bit before converting them to jpeg (max > conversion quality) with a resolution of 350 dpi. > > But when I open this jpg with the Gimp, either through the 'print size' > dialog, the 'image scale' dialog or the 'image properties' dialog, seems > to me that the Gimp takes it as 72 dpi resolution. Out of curiosity, > I've just open the same image with both the Gimp and Photoshop Elements, > and Elements states that it has a resolution of 350 dpi (as expected). > > I had never noticed that! Thing is that every time I scale down an > image, the Gimp sets 72 dpi as default for resolution. > > All of my images are at this (low) resolution now (which doesn't matter > as I've kept the original RAW files). I didn't notice this when I was > working with the Gimp, till a few days ago that a friend told me -when I > showed him my pics- that I should keep resolution higher when > downscaling jpgs. > > Am I missing something here? Any ideas? > > I must confess that I have never worried about the resolution before, > and I don't think I understand this issue completely. > > TIA > > Jaime > > > _______________________________________________ > Gimp-user mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user > > See if this helps: http://www.scantips.com/basics01.html as i learned this morning from Bob Long
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