Re: [Gimp-user] Scaling and resolution

2009-09-15 Thread Jaime Seuma
Thank you all for the tips and links, I think this is enough info to make me understand the whole thing, and to make me feel comfortable with it. Best regards Jaime David Gowers wrote: > In GIMP (and Photoshop, and some other editing software) > it will make it display differently. If your disp

Re: [Gimp-user] Scaling and resolution

2009-09-14 Thread David Gowers
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 9:40 AM, Patrick Horgan wrote: > Jaime Seuma wrote: > > Hi > > This is an interesting question also to me. > > David Gowers wrote: > > > > No, if you turn off View->Dot for dot then the DPI relative to your > display DPI is used to scale your view of the image. > > > That m

Re: [Gimp-user] Scaling and resolution

2009-09-14 Thread Patrick Horgan
Jaime Seuma wrote: Hi This is an interesting question also to me. David Gowers wrote: No, if you turn off View->Dot for dot then the DPI relative to your display DPI is used to scale your view of the image. That much I had already found; but still, when I open a file

[Gimp-user] Scaling and resolution

2009-09-14 Thread Mark
>Jaime Seuma wrote: > >See if this helps: >http://www.scantips.com/basics01.html > > Thank you for making this link available. -- Mark (via www.gimpusers.com) ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/ma

Re: [Gimp-user] Scaling and resolution

2009-09-14 Thread Bob Long
Jaime Seuma wrote: > Hi > > This is an interesting question also to me. > > David Gowers wrote: > >> No, if you turn off View->Dot for dot then the DPI relative to your >> display DPI is used to scale your view of the image. > > That much I had already found; but still, when I open a file that

Re: [Gimp-user] Scaling and resolution

2009-09-14 Thread Jaime Seuma
Hi This is an interesting question also to me. David Gowers wrote: > > No, if you turn off View->Dot for dot then the DPI relative to your > display DPI is used to scale your view of the image. That much I had already found; but still, when I open a file that has been scaled only in resolution

Re: [Gimp-user] Scaling and resolution

2009-09-12 Thread David Gowers
On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 12:27 AM, Michael J. M. wrote: > Hello all, > > I experimented with the resolution settings in the gimp --> scale image > menu. > > The resolution does not seem to have any effect on the rendering of the image > on a computer screen. > > It has no effect on file size either

[Gimp-user] Scaling and resolution

2009-09-12 Thread Michael J. M.
Hello all, I experimented with the resolution settings in the gimp --> scale image menu. The resolution does not seem to have any effect on the rendering of the image on a computer screen. It has no effect on file size either. I checked this by scaling and saving the same image in 3 different