Re: Resizing a large landscape type photo to a smaller size help

["rey_m21" <rey_m21@xxxxxxxxx>]

That really happens, given the fact that your original image is set to
1000x667.  Toggling the chain button (to unconnected) will lead you to
forcing GIMP to scale the image according to the inputs you've made. 
While leaving the chain button as is (connected)you can scale your
image smaller (and nearer) to your desired size, but that will leave
you to a size of 242x161 (242px width and 161px height) without
noticing any "stretched" effect to your scaled image.  This is a rule
in upscaling/downscaling.  You can tweak that though by inputting
smaller values so as not to make the image look "stretched", but there
will still be.

I hope I helped.

Good luck.  =)