Re: [Gimp-user] Losing precision

2002-05-30 Thread Jon Winters
On Thu, 30 May 2002, John Culleton wrote: > On Thursday 30 May 2002 12:12 pm, you wrote: > > Scale the image and pay no attention to the DPI. The actual width and > > height in pixels is what the web browser renders. No control over the DPI > > of the users desktop... must use absolute pixels!

Re: [Gimp-user] Losing precision

2002-05-30 Thread Jon Winters
On 30 May 2002, Roland Roberts wrote: > If you are putting it on the web, ignore DPI. You don't care about > DPI, you care about dimensions. DPI will have *no* effect on what you > see for a web image. I used to have a web page to illustrate this. I had two 72x72 pixel images and one was 1dpi

Re: [Gimp-user] Losing precision

2002-05-30 Thread Roland Roberts
> "John" == John Culleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: John> I have a JPEG that was scanned at say 300dpi. I reduce it in John> size in Gimp. Now the dpi shoots up in proportion. I want to John> use the reduced image on a web page where anything over John> 75dpi is overkill. I

[Gimp-user] Losing precision

2002-05-30 Thread John Culleton
I have a JPEG that was scanned at say 300dpi. I reduce it in size in Gimp. Now the dpi shoots up in proportion. I want to use the reduced image on a web page where anything over 75dpi is overkill. I know I can scale back the precision when I save the file but what is the relationship if any bet