Re: [Gimp-user] gimp users matter

[Andrew & Bridget <andrew_bridget btinternet com>]

> I now have village.xcf with all layers preserved
> I finish the picture, and do two steps:
>
>     file > save, and then
>
>     file > export
>
> I now have a flattened image named village.png
>
> So I need to scale it, make it small enough to email or upload
>
> But unlike in 2.6, I can’t simply proceed to do that. I have to re-open
> village.png
Hi Helen, from my understanding you are wanting to keep the original 
image (village.xcf) at the original size and resize the .png to a 
smaller size to email, without re-opening the image.
You need to have a look at 'Save for Web' as you can save to .png and 
resize without altering your original image (village.xcf). Once saved 
the .png file will be the smaller size without re-opening and the 
vilage.xcf will not be affected.

Hope this helps ?
Andrew