On 01/17/2011 10:31 AM, Jeremy Nell wrote: > I am new to Gimp (converted from Photoshop because I migrated to > Ubuntu). Gimp is great and I'm enjoying its speed and power. But I am > struggling with a few things, some of which I'll mail to this list and > hopefully get some feedback. > > When scaling an image, Gimp keeps the original image underneath the one > being scaled. I guess this is so that I can visually compare the > difference in size before applying. > > However, this becomes less intuitive when you're dealing with, say, a > detailed drawing. When scaling, lines appear everywhere and it becomes > messy. I don't seem to have an option to hide the full-size image > underneath; the closest is to give it a grid or outline, neither of > which are helpful in this scenario. Even making the underneath image > 50% of its opacity would be more helpful. > > Or am I doing something wrong? > More like the latter I think... From what you describe, you are using the Scale tool, that is really meant to adjust layers over each other (and this will produce a smaller layer without reducing the global image size).
If you want to scale the whole image. you should use the aptly located and named Image/Scale image :-) Advice: in Edit/Preferences/Tools make sure that your scaling method is the right one: normally the best one is Sinc, but since it takes some CPU (though it's really OK with most images on recent PCs), the default method is a somewhat less CPU-intensive one. _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
