This will prevent all distortion and most (not all mind you) of the forced cropping. Then copy and paste it into your New File window and save it. Scale your original file on that dimension and let the height scale with it. So let’s say your new width needs to by 600 pixels wide. To Scale an Image with GIMP simply follow the instructions above (remember by default the resizing process is SCALING and NOT resizing). Open your original file format and SCALE it (on the lacking dimension) so it will correctly fit into your “new file size”. This sounds more complicated than it really is. Now what? Phew…well hold on to your horses. Or, less say your original image file is really big (width and height) and it fills up the “new file size” but it leaves out a lot of the image (like forced cropping). Okay, less say you original file is not “tall” (height dimension) enough to simply cut and paste into the size you want it to be in. Voila, if you are lucky then you image resizing project is complete. You can move the image around to get the best fit, then SAVE FILE. If you are lucking, you should be able to copy the open image file and the paste it into the new file window. Now you should have one file open and one NEW file window open. New will allow you to pick the dimensional aspects of your file right from the start, and by default the dimensions are not “locked” together as explained above. Then under the same drop down file menu that you found OPEN under, choose NEW. Open the original file you wish to resize. What if you want to resize an image file on a different dimensional aspect, but you can’t live with distortion (most uses of images are for the expressed purpose of people LOOKING at them…and who wants to look at a distorted image?). By “breaking” the dimensions, you can distort the image file (making it looked stretched or squat for example). The link icon will appear to “break” and you can now change the width dimension without the height dimension automatically changing (and vice versa).Īnd here is where the real lesson in image scaling and resizing comes into play. If you want to “break” that you simply click on the link icon.
#RESIZE IMAGE IN GIMP UPDATE#
This means if you change the width the height will automatically update to keep the dimensions the same. By default, that chain link is UNBROKEN, which mean you can’t change the aspect ration (the SCALE) of the image. Now between the Width and Height aspects and the PIXELS you will see vertical chain icon. (Inches say for photographs for example that need to be printed and set into a standard frame size). You can get PIXELS by default, but you can change that to inches, millimeters, percent and more. You can discover the size of any image you may need to know the size of. A couple of helpful things you can do from this Scale Image window. You will see the W and H is displayed in that window in PIXELS (given as 663 x 442). In this final step, you will see the “Scale Image” pop up window displayed in the screen capture below. Resizing implies you need to get the image file to fit in a predetermined size (width and height…not resolution or file SIZE) regardless of the given ratio of the image file you are editing. So if you change one (bigger or smaller) than the other dimension will SCALE to keep the same aspect ratio. Scaling means you are resizing on a SET width and height.
Now scaling and resizing are not the same thing. Once the file is open (SEE ABOVE), you will want to engage the IMAGE drop down and select SCALE IMAGE. Find it, select it, and open it.Īs you can see in my example, I have chosen my Help Thy Client header file used on many of the articles found in this blog series.
OPEN will then give you a pretty common file browser for you to find the image file you wish to resize. Step two is engage the drop down menu under FILE and click on OPEN. Depending on what version you are using it will look like this when you have successfully open the program:
STEP ONE:Īfter you’ve found and downloaded GIMP 2.8 (or latest version at time of reading), you need to open the program. Don’t know what GIMP is? Take a look at our digital product review of GIMP 2.8 GNU Image Manipulation Editor. With GIMP, you can do it easily and for FREE. Be it for your brochure or your personal photo album, the need for getting the size of an image just right comes up a lot. I bet you there isn’t one of you that hasn’t run into the need of resizing an image.
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