[Gimp-user] Resize and crfop an image

[rich404 <forums gimpusers com>]

> Hi
>
> I am very new to GIMP, and I am sure what I am trying to do is quite
> straight
> forward but I can not work it out. Please help!
>
> I have some massive images that I need to resize for a WordPress
> website feature
> image (1200 x 600). I need to resize and crop them, but I would like
> to be able
> to adjust where the crop ends up being so I can see clearly and choose
> which
> bits of the original image end up being in the new version.  How do I
> do that
> all please?
>
> TIA!

You do realise that scaling down by any considerable amount loses quality

however

one way is https://youtu.be/-qDUdMCcZ_o  duration 2 min 20 secs


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