Re: [Gimp-user] [Q] Resizing a PNG makes it BIGGER!

2003-06-06 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Daniel Carrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thanks. I didn't realize that they were. > How do you tell appart an RGBA image from an RGB image? > Gimp calls them both "RGB". I used "file foo.png" but there are lots of indicators in GIMP as well. The most obvious is probably if you can Flatt

Re: [Gimp-user] [Q] Resizing a PNG makes it BIGGER!

2003-06-06 Thread Daniel Carrera
On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 01:31:47PM +0200, Sven Neumann wrote: > > $ du -sk * > > 52 screenshot.png > > 128 screenshot_resized.png > > > > The new image is over 4 times bigger than the original! > > 128 / 52 = 2.46 Okay, I forgot how to divide. But still. > > These are RGB images BTW,

Re: [Gimp-user] [Q] Resizing a PNG makes it BIGGER!

2003-06-06 Thread Daniel Carrera
On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 10:30:29AM +0100, Jonathan E. Paton wrote: > Retake the screenshot, after reducing the size of the window. If you look at what the screenshot is of, you will notice that I can't make the window much smaller since that would hide information, or pack it very tightly. > At

Re: [Gimp-user] [Q] Resizing a PNG makes it BIGGER!

2003-06-05 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Daniel Carrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This is really weird. I have a PNG image. I tried to make it > smaller by resizing it down, but instead it got BIGGER. I don't > understand this at all. > > I put the images on the web: > > Original: http://www.math.umd.edu/~dcarrera/screenshot

Re: [Gimp-user] [Q] Resizing a PNG makes it BIGGER!

2003-06-05 Thread Jonathan E. Paton
--- Daniel Carrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 02:12:22AM +0200, Marco Wessel wrote: > > > > My guess is that this is because of the interpolation when resampling. > > Makes it less easily compressable. (Notice the 'anti-aliased' edges in > > the resized picture?) > > >

Re: [Gimp-user] [Q] Resizing a PNG makes it BIGGER!

2003-06-05 Thread Daniel Carrera
On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 02:12:22AM +0200, Marco Wessel wrote: > > My guess is that this is because of the interpolation when resampling. > Makes it less easily compressable. (Notice the 'anti-aliased' edges in > the resized picture?) > > Marco Wessel Any suggestion as to how to fix it? -- Dani

Re: [Gimp-user] [Q] Resizing a PNG makes it BIGGER!

2003-06-05 Thread Marco Wessel
My guess is that this is because of the interpolation when resampling. Makes it less easily compressable. (Notice the 'anti-aliased' edges in the resized picture?) Marco Wessel On Wed, 4 Jun 2003, Daniel Carrera wrote: > Hi, > > This is really weird. I have a PNG image. I tried to make it s

[Gimp-user] [Q] Resizing a PNG makes it BIGGER!

2003-06-05 Thread Daniel Carrera
Hi, This is really weird. I have a PNG image. I tried to make it smaller by resizing it down, but instead it got BIGGER. I don't understand this at all. I put the images on the web: Original: http://www.math.umd.edu/~dcarrera/screenshot.png Resized: http://www.math.umd.edu/~dcarrera/scre