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[ratherastory]

Hi all!

I have a very savvy flist, so I'm hoping you can help me. I have managed, with much sweating and cursing and use of CTRL-Z, to create a nice square image in GIMP that I'd like to use as an album cover for a book recording I'm making for my mother for Christmas.

I did a test run on Friday to try to print it... and it printed out about three times too big to be a good CD cover. I thought I got the settings right in GIMP, but apparently I thought wrong. Can anyone out there tell me what I should be doing?

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[silverblaze85.livejournal.com]

Alright, got it. You -don't- want to resize the canvas... that's the same as cropping the image. Instead, pull up your image, and go to Image, and then Scale Image. That brings up the scale image toolbox; from here, you can resize the image via manipulating pixels, inches, percentages, millimeters, points, pica, and more. If you click the little 'chain' between the Width and the Height input boxes, you can alter each size independently. Otherwise, when you adjust the height, it will automatically keep the width proportions the same.

Then you can adjust.

You can preview the print size prior to printing by clicking File, Print and then going to the Image Settings tab. It brings up a print preview box, and another chance to alter the image layout.

Or, you know, you can open the image in Paint,click the preview pane, and just adjust the print percentages and play there.

Hopefully that helped? *hopes*