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Photo editing with Gimp

Gimp Resize

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Use Gimp to Resize your photos for multimedia or desktop publishing

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Photo editing with Gimp

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Transfer your camera photos to your flash drive•Hold the camera as you would if taking a photo•Look at the right side of the camera•Slide the small lever labeled CARD/BATT. OPEN•The door will pop open•Locate the SD card and push the SD card down•It will pop up for removal•Put the SD card into your card reader•Plug it into a USB port

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Drag it into your Flash Drive

Open up the folder labeled DCIM

Look for the 100CANON folder

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Gimp Download Page

Go to the Start menu

Go to All Programs and open Gimp 2

Gimp is an open source download that is about as powerful as Photoshop Elements but…

it’s FREE!!

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After you transfer your photos to your hard drive or flash drive choose one to open

Check the number of pixels and the percentage of the picture that you are viewing

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Go to the Image Menu and choose Scale Image

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In the Scale Image windowChoose inches instead of pixels for Width

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As you see, a picture 3264

pixels wide is

45 inches wide!

That isn’t

usable for web or print

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A web page or paper page is only about 8”

wide

Change the Width to 8”

As long as the links are connected, it will keep it’s aspect ratio

72 is the perfect resolution for your web page or printed material unless you are producing a professional brochure

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But look at percentage

of the picture you are viewing

You are still seeing the

low %

Do not panic when your image scales down!You see now the new number of pixels

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Go to View and choose ZoomThen choose Fit Image in Window

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It will depend

how large your

window is but you see that you still have a good sized photo after

resizing!

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In order to use your photos

properly on the web or in printed documents, you really need to do

this resizing.

If you don’t do this you will be using

up far more memory than

necessary.

When you look at the details of each file you see how much memory you use up with each picture.

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You can add extra space

to your photo for a special text

effect.

Go to Image and choose Canvas Size

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Unlink the chain to change just one

dimension

Change pixels to inches so you have a good idea what size

the photo is

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Press Enter after you change the dimension

Move the picture to the side away from where you want more space.

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Create a New Layer and move the original Background layer above it. Fill with the dominant Background color.

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Go to Image and choose

Flatten Image to merge the

two layers

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Add your text in this extra area

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Rounded Corners w/Drop Shadow

Old Photo w/Fuzzy Border

Fuzzy Border

Border

Border w/Bevel

Effects you can do using GIMP