Thursday, February 2, 2012

Gimp Photo scaling for even height and width.

Lot of times when you want to scale the image to a square value lets say 2x2 the scaling value won't match. To fix this use this options

  • Use the rectangle select and choose fixed  and size from drop down.
  • Give a higher square number like 2700x 2700 so that the select rectangle cover the intended area of your picture.
  • now crop the image to selection.
  • During scaling provide DPI value as 300 pixels and your intended scaling number like 2 inch and 2 inch

For clearing the background.

  • Use the fuzzy select and select the area you want to clear.
  • Use the color picker to get the color.
  • right click and fill it with the choose color
  • finish it up with paint tool to get more even color.
  • Finallyuse the fuzzy select tool again on the background now right click on the selection and select image color option and select brightness give the max value for a white background.