This brief tutorial will guide you in using The Gimp to resize pictures/images. It’s also a part of the Linux for Parents - A Beginners Guide to Ubuntu series. Though the Gimp is not a Linux specific program, it is included as the default image editing software in Ubuntu.
- Start by locating the image you want to resize. Right-click it and select Open With -> Open with “GIMP Image Editor”.
- In the main Gimp window (the one with your picture displayed) select Image from the top menu, and then Scale Image… from the drop-down list.
- The Scale Image window will appear. The image dimensions (Width and Height) will be displayed in pixels.
- If you’d like to resize your picture based on percentage, click the “up/down” arrows in the pixels menu and select percent.
- Now use the up or down arrow(s) in the Width: box to increase or decrease the size of your picture. In the example below, I’ve decreased the size of the picture by 50%. Click the Scale button when you’re ready.
- The picture will now shrink (assuming you opted to decrease its size).
- If you want to permanently resize the picture, select File -> Save. If you want to save this resized picture but keep the original as it is, click File -> Save as…
- Give your ‘new’ picture a name and click the Save button.
- You’ll be asked what Quality you want the picture to be. The higher the quality, the larger the resulting file. I usually opt for somewhere around 85. Click OK when you’re done.
- That’s it! You can now quit The Gimp by selecting File -> Quit.
- And now you’ll have a resized version of your original picture.
- For more info on using The Gimp, see the article titled My Gimp Resources.
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Sounds very interesting. I will have to check it out
thanks for the tutorial, it really helped ’cause I’ve been using gimp and I couldn’t figure out how to resize. THANKS!
this has helped sooo much. THANKS
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