[Gimp-user] problems with understand how to resize images properly

[albatross <forums gimpusers com>]

Thanks - I'll give it a go.

Cheers

> Gimp is a raster editor and works in pixels. When you scale an image,
> the pixels are not scaled they stay the same so for your signature
> image reduced to 10% means several hundred pixels are crammed into
> maybe a dozen: see screenshot 1
>
> You can get a little improvement by pre-blurring the large image but
> 1-10th the size is asking a lot.
>
> For a better result convert the raster image into a vector image,
> typically a SVG. You can do this using freeware Inkscape or there are
> online converters.
>
> In a document for comparison, the type size is 14 to give some idea of
> scale. screenshot 2
>
> rich: www.gimp-forum.net

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