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

["James (BRM)" <bodyrockinmodels@xxxxxxxxx>]

Wanted to add that,  eventually I'm going to need to get into doing
wall papers for the girls, promotional spot graphics and buttons,
various size banners .jpeg .gif animated, so I assume Gimp can handle
all that, but whew sure hope learning is easier than what I thought
was a simple no brainer resize 1,2 3 done thing I needed to get up to
speed on 1st :)

James


etc etc...so I assume --- In gimpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "James (BRM)"
<bodyrockinmodels@...> wrote:
>
> The reason I need those dimensions are because those are the maximum
> image sizes my designers setup for photo's I need to upload into the
> places on my site home page they need to go and not screw up how the
> page formats or looks.
> 
> All photo's on my site are submitted by the models we approve and they
> don't all send the same size photo's, so I have to work with whatever
> size photo's they send, so I won't get the same size original from any
> two girls..if you go to my site home page you will see the cover model
> lead photo, the Model of the Day, the Celebrity feature, the Body Zone
> VIP feature and the Photographer of the Month, all have set maximum
> size photo's I need to re-size to fit in each repective spot.
> 
> The Model of the Day and Celebrity Model photo's is where the image
> size max is 242 by 118.
> 
> My site is for those over 18 so you may see some nudity on some models
> pages..but not on the home page or for the photo's I need to re-size
> in those positions. Link is on my profile, not sure I can post to you
> to help on the board.
> 
> Friend of mine fixed the MOD & Celeb photo for me yesterday, but he
> used PhotoShop and said all he did was enter the height and width for
> both those photo's at 242 x 118 and they came out okay for him. I have
> never used PhotoShop so I don't have a clue how that works as for
> peocedure compared to Gimp 2.2.
> 
> James
> 
> --- In gimpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "rey_m21" <rey_m21@> wrote:
> >
> > 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.  =)
> >
>