David, Thanks for that clarification.
I made the mistake of thinking of how I do it in Photoshop which has a single "resize image" dialog where things are not so neatly divided as they are in Gimp. In Gimp there is a "Print Size" dialog. My bad. Jay On 04/07/2009 07:01 PM, David Gowers wrote: > On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 12:44 AM, Jay Smith <j...@jaysmith.com> wrote: >> Norman, >> >> So, to scan that postage stamp that you want to turn into a wall poster, >> you might scan it at a very high 2400 x 2400 resolution. Then, in your >> image program, change the size from 1x1-inch up to 20x20 inches AT THE >> VERY SAME TIME AS YOU _reduce_ the resolution to 300x300 dots/pixels > Just to clarify: This is unnecessary. If you want to blow up > something, just reduce the resolution. Halving the resolution is all > that would be required to turn a 600x600 (1 inch square) 600dpi image > into a 600x600 (2 inch square) 300dpi image. > The inches measurement should automatically update itself, since it's > dependent on image resolution. > > David _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
