Re: [Gimp-user] How to export jpeg without loss of quality?

2018-08-13 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Mon, 2018-08-13 at 01:04 +0200, Rodolfo Medina via gimp-user-list wrote: > > I'm > embedding that picture in a pdf file after converting into eps > format. [...] The picture is a photo, that > I have in its original jpg format..., 12MB big. That's not very large for a print-resolution

Re: [Gimp-user] How to export jpeg without loss of quality?

2018-08-13 Thread Rodolfo Medina via gimp-user-list
ation for an event of theatre... The picture is a photo, that I have in its original jpg format..., 12MB big. Cheers, Rodolfo > > -Original Message- > From: Rodolfo Medina via gimp-user-list > Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2018 1:45 PM > To: gimp-user-list@gnome.or

Re: [Gimp-user] How to export jpeg without loss of quality?

2018-08-12 Thread Steve Kinney
On 08/13/2018 01:23 AM, Steve Kinney wrote: > Silly me. In Layers > Scale Layer Well dang it. I meant Image > Scale Image. Getting late here... :D ___ gimp-user-list mailing list List address:gimp-user-list@gnome.org List membership:

Re: [Gimp-user] How to export jpeg without loss of quality?

2018-08-12 Thread Steve Kinney
On 08/13/2018 01:19 AM, Steve Kinney wrote: > > That done, calculate the X and Y dimensions of your print image in > pixels, based on 300 per inch on the printed page (or other units per > locale), and scale it down. Export the scaled image as PNG, and it's > ready to import into a desktop

Re: [Gimp-user] How to export jpeg without loss of quality?

2018-08-12 Thread Steve Kinney
> Thanks all who kindly replied to my request of help... I understand there's a > loss of the original size because of my resizing and scaling under Gimp.. But > here we're talking of a 12MB file that becomes 380KB...! Isn't it too much > also with those considerations? Depends what you

Re: [Gimp-user] How to export jpeg without loss of quality?

2018-08-12 Thread Rodolfo Medina via gimp-user-list
; Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2018 11:36 PM > To: gimp-user-list@gnome.org > Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] How to export jpeg without loss of quality? > > > clip... > > Where higher quality matters more than lower file size, for instance > images intended for color printing on glossy s

Re: [Gimp-user] How to export jpeg without loss of quality?

2018-07-30 Thread Rick Strong
To add to Steve Kinney's excellent summaries, note also that PNGs will export (i.e. maintain) transparency while JPGs will not. R. Strong -Original Message- From: Steve Kinney Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2018 11:36 PM To: gimp-user-list@gnome.org Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] How to export

Re: [Gimp-user] How to export jpeg without loss of quality?

2018-07-29 Thread Steve Kinney
On 07/29/2018 05:45 AM, Ofnuts wrote: > On 07/26/18 08:59, Rodolfo Medina via gimp-user-list wrote: >> Hi all Gimp users. >> >> I'm new to Gimp.  I need rescaling and resizing a jpeg picture.  But, >> after >> rescaling and resizing it with Gimp, and after exporting it as jpeg >> format, the >>

Re: [Gimp-user] How to export jpeg without loss of quality?

2018-07-29 Thread Ofnuts
On 07/26/18 08:59, Rodolfo Medina via gimp-user-list wrote: Hi all Gimp users. I'm new to Gimp. I need rescaling and resizing a jpeg picture. But, after rescaling and resizing it with Gimp, and after exporting it as jpeg format, the size of the output file is much smaller: the original 12MB