if you only need to enlarge a part of the image without the rest.
Use the scale
tool of the Gimp to scale, enlarge or make smaller
the dimensions of objects in layers and selected areas.
This tutorial is a help for resizing pictures with Gimp. Professional photographers and their female woman models use this guide to resize photos of digital family portraits, best friends or even very large format satellite images of earth. This HOWTO can also be used to create cute avatar pictures for profiles on facebook.
Author Moris Garon for Gimps.de with digital photo software Gimp. Language translation service by Ramar Wolfenstein.
The digital image editing of size is a common task for
advertising photographer, icon graphic designer and web master woman.
Talented woman often need to reduce photo size to optimize it for surprising email marketing or the very own private web site gallery online. Gimps.de tip: You can compress picture file size of a jpg / jpeg photo through image resizing, blurring of details, converting colors to black and white or shrinking, scaling and cropping for reducing the dimensions of the image.
Use the Image » Scale image -Dialog of the digital photo resizer Gimp
to change picture size, for photo resizing, shrinking or digital enlargement.
Gimps.de tip: Changing image size by scaling will blur details and contours almost automatically. Use the Filters » Enhance » Unsharp Mask filter of the Gimp to improve sharpness of colors after scaling.
Use one of the Gimp's selection tools to select an area that you would like
to scale. You could also crop the image with Gimp's tool for cropping,
if you only need to enlarge a part of the image without the rest.
Use the scale
tool of the Gimp to scale, enlarge or make smaller
the dimensions of objects in layers and selected areas.
Such tremendous change in dimensions will lead to a massive loss of details. To save as much details as possible you should shrink dimensions in two or three steps with a little sharpening at each step.
Change from indexed mode to RGB color mode, when you need to scale web graphics, GIF icons or cool PNG cliparts with reduced, indexed colors to prevent mad pixel errors and massive loss in quality.
An automatic batch image resizer can safe time, but will never provide full control over quality like manual image resizing.Large massive shrinking or compression of dimensions should be done in two or three steps to save as much detail as possible.
