[Gimp-user] problems with understand how to resize images properly

2017-12-08 Thread albatross
Thanks ... Not quite sure what you mean ... "So, start with the Work you want to resize, and create a new object with the desired size your trying to get. then copy one into the other." Do you mean do the above In Gimp2? Then export to a jpg from gimp2? Thanks >I may not be able to answer yo

[Gimp-user] problems with understand how to resize images properly

2017-12-08 Thread menglor
>Thanks ... >Not quite sure what you mean ... > >"So, start with the Work you want to resize, and create a new object >with the desired size your trying to get. then copy one into the >other." > >Do you mean do the above In Gimp2? Then export to a jpg from gimp2? > >Thanks Gimp, you can have m

[Gimp-user] problems with understand how to resize images properly

2017-12-08 Thread menglor
I may not be able to answer your question, but I can explain a few things that I am taking on blind faith and its working. So, start with the Work you want to resize, and create a new object with the desired size your trying to get. then copy one into the other. Then the magic piece is to Expo

[Gimp-user] problems with understand how to resize images properly

2017-12-08 Thread albatross
Thanks - I'll give it a go. Cheers >Gimp is a raster editor and works in pixels. When you scale an image, >the pixels are not scaled they stay the same so for your signature >image reduced to 10% means several hundred pixels are crammed into >maybe a dozen: see screenshot 1 > >You can get a littl

[Gimp-user] problems with understand how to resize images properly

2017-12-08 Thread rich404
>Hi, I too have an issue understanding how resizing works, especially >with reference to Word. >I wasn't sure if I should post a new thread, but decided this was sort >of pertinent to my issue. >Please let me know if I should create a new post. > >Basically, If I have a big image (a signature, blac

[Gimp-user] problems with understand how to resize images properly

2017-12-08 Thread albatross
Hi, I too have an issue understanding how resizing works, especially with reference to Word. I wasn't sure if I should post a new thread, but decided this was sort of pertinent to my issue. Please let me know if I should create a new post. Basically, If I have a big image (a signature, black and w

[Gimp-user] problems with understand how to resize images properly

2017-12-08 Thread Amira_Cervantes
>Hi menglor, > >The process you describe will give you images of different sizes if >the >originals have different DPI values, because when you scale an image >to >be a certain number of inches in size, the GIMP looks at the DPI >resolution of the image first, then scales the image to be X number o

[Gimp-user] problems with understand how to resize images properly

2017-12-08 Thread menglor
Thank you, I will give it a try. I am pretty sure it wont work for me because I am actually cutting out the picture inside the lable. so its not the label size I need, but a smaller piece of it. -- menglor (via www.gimpusers.com/forums) ___ gimp-user-

[Gimp-user] problems with understand how to resize images properly

2017-12-08 Thread menglor
Thanks for your reply. I am reading through what your saying, and I cross posted this question on another site and getting a similar answer. I dont want to duplicate the work, but I need to get some kind of "simple" working solution. so I am hoping I can comment a few things and maybe drive the c

Re: [Gimp-user] problems with understand how to resize images properly

2017-11-27 Thread Rick Strong
her ways to solve a problem. The auto-label maker in WORD is a nice feature and can be used to print images on labels. Cheers, Rick S. -Original Message- From: menglor Sent: Monday, November 20, 2017 9:05 AM To: gimp-user-list@gnome.org Cc: notificati...@gimpusers.com Subject: [Gimp-us

Re: [Gimp-user] problems with understand how to resize images properly

2017-11-21 Thread Steve Kinney
On 11/20/2017 09:05 AM, menglor wrote: > Good Day! > > I am a newbie learner to “” and I am trying to accomplish a series of steps, > but > things just don’t seem to work out for me. > > I have 2 problems, well more but I wont go into everything  > > - Basically I am trying to import a

[Gimp-user] problems with understand how to resize images properly

2017-11-20 Thread menglor
Good Day! I am a newbie learner to “” and I am trying to accomplish a series of steps, but things just don’t seem to work out for me. I have 2 problems, well more but I wont go into everything  - Basically I am trying to import a picture of varing sizes, and then resize them to fit a s