I always found the "Edit with GIMP" option in the context window very helpful,
and one day it disappeared. I finally got around to try adding it back through a
tutorial I found online, but afterwards, I got an error message saying,
"This file does not have an app associated with it for performing
>Greetings all,
>I am a noob where Gimp is concerned. I have used it as a photo
>editor on a fairly cursory level and absolutely love it. UNTIL, I
>decided to try to use it to design the cover for my first book.
>I tried, I tested and stretched and ran myself mad trying to get it to
>do
Hi Mark,
I suspect that you are trying to make a small image bigger and using "Image
> print size" to resize it. Use "Image > Scale Image" instead.
Enter "300" px/in in the X resolution box making sure it is linked to the
"Y" resolution box so both resolutions are the same. Then, go up to
Hi Mark,
I think you are trying something impossible. 300 dpi = 300 dots per inch
(or better ppi = pixel per inch). If your book is 6x9 your image bust be
(6x300)x(9x300) = 1800x2700 pixel. Every thing else will not work! You
can't change the dpi without changing the number of pixel and the other
Greetings all,
I am a noob where Gimp is concerned. I have used it as a photo editor on a
fairly cursory level and absolutely love it. UNTIL, I decided to try to use it
to design the cover for my first book.
I tried, I tested and stretched and ran myself mad trying to get it to do what
>So I have been using Gimp to deal with some very large files that are
>demanding
>on the computer resources, using 100 GB swap for the tile cache at
>times. I am
>quite accepting that some processes on the computer are slow at times
>working
>with such large images.
>
>What I do not understand is
