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GIMP 2.10 Scale Image: what the manual page says about resizing, units and resampling
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What this guide covers
A reading of the GIMP 2.10 manual page on Scale Image for illustrators resizing their own finished work. It covers what the command changes, the width, height, unit and resolution fields, why enlarged images blur, and the warnings. Based on one page; nothing was run in GIMP and the interpolation methods are not listed.
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GIMP 2.10 Scale Image: what the manual page says about resizing, units and resampling
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A reading of the GIMP 2.10 manual page on Scale Image for illustrators resizing their own finished work. It covers what the command changes, the width, height, unit and resolution fields, why enlarged images blur, and the warnings. Based on one page; nothing was run in GIMP and the interpolation methods are not listed.
Useful starting points
- Enlarging adds no detail; the page says the image gets more blurred the more it is enlarged, so start from a high resolution.
- To change only the printing size without resampling, the page points to the Print Size dialog instead.
- Shrinking an image with differently sized layers can reduce some layers to nothing; GIMP warns first.
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