Re: [Gimp-user] Problem downsizing Tiff's

2011-04-24 Thread Mathias Lindner
Also, because of the differences in compression types, some images that compress very well in TIFF's type of compression, compress very badly in JPG-type compression. The type of images that do this are images which have lots of very thin lines, in other words: blueprints. I don't have a

Re: [Gimp-user] Problem downsizing Tiff's

2011-04-24 Thread Kevin Cozens
Mathias Lindner wrote: The best format would be a vector graphic as suggested. But from my experience it's hard to get a good one from pixel files. There are programs you can use that can convert (or try to convert) a bitmap image to a vector graphic one. One such option is Autotrace which

[Gimp-user] Problem downsizing Tiff's

2011-04-24 Thread Carusoswi
Mathias Lindner wrote: The best format would be a vector graphic as suggested. But from my experience it's hard to get a good one from pixel files. There are programs you can use that can convert (or try to convert) a bitmap image to a vector graphic one. One such option is Autotrace which

[Gimp-user] Problem downsizing Tiff's

2011-04-23 Thread Carusoswi
So, I have used Gimp to downsize large architectural drawing images from Tiff's to jpgs. Well, I always thought I was downsizing them. In the past, the process always seemed to make the files more usable in the application where I need to use the architectural drawings without a significant

Re: [Gimp-user] Problem downsizing Tiff's

2011-04-23 Thread John Culleton
On Saturday 23 April 2011 07:53:49 Carusoswi wrote: So, I have used Gimp to downsize large architectural drawing images from Tiff's to jpgs. Well, I always thought I was downsizing them. In the past, the process always seemed to make the files more usable in the application where I need

[Gimp-user] Problem downsizing Tiff's

2011-04-23 Thread Carusoswi
On Saturday 23 April 2011 07:53:49 Carusoswi wrote: So, I have used Gimp to downsize large architectural drawing images from Tiff's to jpgs. Well, I always thought I was downsizing them. In the past, the process always seemed to make the files more usable in the application where I need

Re: [Gimp-user] Problem downsizing Tiff's

2011-04-23 Thread Michael Grosberg
Carusoswi forums at gimpusers.com writes: So, I have used Gimp to downsize large architectural drawing images from Tiff's to jpgs. Let's be precise. You are not downsizing the images. Downsize means making a picture physically smaller, as in, having less pixels. According to your own

Re: [Gimp-user] Problem downsizing Tiff's

2011-04-23 Thread Owen
So, I have used Gimp to downsize large architectural drawing images from Tiff's to jpgs. Well, I always thought I was downsizing them. In the past, the process always seemed to make the files more usable in the application where I need to use the architectural drawings without a significant