Resizing with GIMP

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On your computer, with GIMP you can resize pictures easily to later accompany your texts with them. I present you here how to do that using Scale Tool and either manually or numerically shrink a picture. Below is a one minute video followed by explanations and exercises you can download. Don't forget this is the 4th part of GIMP Guide for Authors. Happy editing!

(GIMP Resizing in one minute)

Resizing

• Use Scale tool (S)
• Click on the picture
• Eighth handles appear surrounding the picture
• Drag one handle to any direction, or
• Numerically type width x height values on the dialog,
• Join the chain or break the chain in order to keep or keep no aspect ratio,
• Click Scale button
• Go to menubar Image > Crop to image size > picture resized.

After resizing don't forget to Save As (Ctrl+S) GIMP document format .xcf and then Export As (Ctrl+Shift+E) actual picture file you want such as .png .jpg .gif.

Example

This is the result of one minute video above. Before, here is the original Ubuntu logo:


After, here is Ubuntu logo resized with GIMP:


That's all.

Exercises

Below are three exercise you can download the pictures by right click > Save Image As.

Orange section - Here is Ubuntu logo 'Circle of Friends' by 200x200 pixels. Resize this into five standard icon dimensions 128x128 - 96x96 - 64x64 - 48x48 - 16x16. Save them as ubuntu128.png, ubuntu96.png, ubuntu64.png, ubuntu48.png, and ubuntu16.png.



Green section - here is Ubuntu MATE logo 'Circle of MATEs' by 240x240 pixels. Resize this too into five standard dimensions like above.


Blue section - here is Kubuntu logo by 240x240 pixels. Resize this too into five standard dimensions like above.

To be continued...

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