On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 1:55 PM, Jay Smith <j...@jaysmith.com> wrote: > On 01/26/2010 02:49 PM, helices wrote: >> I have a simple JPG (108x170 pixels) that I want to use in a larger, >> higher resolution image that I'm creating. It is a fairly simple black >> and white drawing -- actually, a light bulb with several curves and >> angles and straight lines.
> This may be missing the point somehow, but if you used some kind of > "outlining" program (followed by a little editing) that creates a > vector-based (instead of bitmap based) image, you could then scale to > whatever size you want with perfect resolution, and then convert that > size to a bitmap format like JPG. If you save the vector version, you > can scale-and-save-out to as many sizes as you like. I would open Inkscape, import the graphic, then either do a trace or redraw it. Then delete the image, save as SVG, open in GIMP at desired size. > Back in the day I used Adobe Streamline for this kind of task, but I > don't know if that even still exists any more. Streamline was for OS 8-9 IIRC, and never got ported to OSX. I use inkscape to do tracing - it works better than the auto-trace feature in Adobe's products anyway (especially on blank-and-white images). Chris _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
