Re: Gimp and image edit question

[Tom Gilbert <tom tomgilbert freeserve co uk>]

* patrick.oneil (patrick hci utah edu) wrote:
> I have a scanned image that I have tried to resize from a rather large
> size, at which I am able to do nice image editing work, to a smaller size.
> I have tried to use the scale command, bringing the size of the image down
> to the correct size on the screen, then saving it - thinking that the new
> size would "stick".  It doesn't.  If I open the image up, the size is
> right back to the huge size I started out as.  Trying to use resize
> doesn't work since it simply seems to crop/truncate the image rather than
> shrink it.  
> 
> Surely there is a means by which I can resize my scanned image down in
> size FOR REAL such that when I open it up subsequently, it will be the
> correct smaller size and I could then print it out at that small size.
> 
> So far, all I get is huge image and huge printout.
> 
> patrick

???? Can you imagine why there would be a 'fake' scale command? I
can't.

Scale is the correct command to shrink an image.

(You did save it afterwards didn't you?)

(And you are opening the image you saved to check the results aren't
you?)

(You are looking at the image with the same zoom factor in both cases
aren't you?)

Tom.
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