Hi,
I want to make an albumcover, the file is 3008x2000. What is the best
way to get it in the right dimensions for a CD wallet cover? Do I first
edit everything, adding title etc. and then scale and crop it? Or crop
and scale it first?
If you look at the picture in the background you see
@ 300 ppi the image is not big enough to fill the template
-A
-Original Message-
From: rosea.grammostola
To: gimp-user-list@gnome.org
Sent: Sat, 19 Oct 2013 12:46
Subject: [Gimp-user] album cover
Hi,
I want to make an albumcover, the file is 3008x2000. What is the best wa
Hi,
I'll give it a try if you allow me to show your image in my video at
http://meetthegimp.org.
Rolf
On 19.10.2013 13:45, rosea.grammostola wrote:
Hi,
I want to make an albumcover, the file is 3008x2000. What is the
best way to get it in the right dimensions for a CD wallet cover? Do I
I would prefer to get some tips to do it myself.
I tried to rm a bit of the light on the back wall and cropped the image
so that it should be possible to scale it to the right dimensions.
If I want to edit the text after scaling, the text itself seems not to
be scaled. Does this mean you have
The text seems to get unreadable after scaling, that seems to be the
biggest problem for me atm.
On 10/19/2013 03:41 PM, rosea.grammostola wrote:
I would prefer to get some tips to do it myself.
I tried to rm a bit of the light on the back wall and cropped the
image so that it should be poss
On 10/19/2013 05:44 PM, Rolf Steinort wrote:
Your image is too small for the template, if you scale it later it
will get all mushy.
I'm really confused here. I scaled the photo with Gimp to the width of
254 mm as is mentioned in the template, but the endresult seems to be
smaller. The output
On 10/19/2013 09:03 AM, rosea.grammostola wrote:
If you put 720px in a converter you get 190mm.
I think you may be confusing print size and image resolution concepts...
If you meant 720 pixels per inch, your image would reduce by a factor of 10.
Perhaps you want 600 pixels per inch?
In any ca
I would do this:
- download the png template and load it into GIMP as the top layer for
the whole project.
- put the image below that on a new layer.
- scale the layer to fill the frame for printing
- sharpen if necessary
- clone out the highlights
- add the text
- make the top layer invisibl
