On Mon, 2008-12-22 at 18:41 -0500, Web Kracked wrote: > Keith Bates wrote: > > > On Mon, 2008-12-22 at 14:17 -0800, David Karr wrote: > > > > > > > > > I have a jpeg of a photo that is a little too large. I loaded it in > > > Impress > > > and resized it smaller, keeping the ratio the same. I then saved the > > > resulting image to a new file. When I view the old and new images, they > > > are > > > identical. The "smaller" image is not smaller. Am I missing something? > > > > > > > > > > > Impress is not an image manipulation program. When you change the size > > of the image in Impress you don't actually change the content of the > > file asll you are doing is changing the way the image appears on the > > page. > > > > I just had a look at Draw and it doesn't seem to have any facility for > > changing the size of image files either... but I don't use either > > Impress or Draw that often so I could be wrong on both of these. > > > > I don't know what OS you are using, but in more recent file managers > > there is often a feature to rescale images. Use your file manager to > > find the jpeg then right click on it and see if it has an option such as > > "Rescale image" > > > > Otherwise use photo software such as GIMP, Photo Shop or the software > > that came with your camera. > > > > Hope that helps > > > Yes you need to use the right software to do the job. I would not > tell a person > to use GIMP. GIMP has a learning Curve. A "guy" took GIMP and made it > easier to use. > He them called it GIMPshop. It bascally GIMP but has a better GUI so > it is > easier to use. It used all of the GIMP filters and add-ons.
The latest versions of GIMP have a different UI which make it a little more intuitive for people to use. I don't do a lot of editing of photos- apart from cropping, re-scaling etc, and occasionally altering the brightness and contrast. Keith > > I have Photoshop, for some of my work, and I only use it when I have > to. > > I do not know about you, but many people seems to not install the > software that comes with their camera. The just do not use the > computer > to edit their photos. They just take the photos and take the Memory > Card > to the photo printing place. I do not use the camera software, since > it does > not work well at all. > > Here are the links to some of the better free image editors. > > GIMPshop > http://www.gimpshop.com/ > > Paint.NET > http://www.getpaint.net/ > > Photoscape > http://www.photoscape.org/ps/main/index.php > > Artweaver > http://www.artweaver.de/index.php?en_version > > > Tim L. > Took over 4,700 digital photo since Sept 2005 and my camera > software does not work on XP at all, and on Vista very badly. > How many ( SD ) memory cards do you have for your camera(s)? > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To > unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional > commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org -- God bless you, Keith Bates www.new-life.org.au If you don't have a reason to live JESUS IS THE ANSWER! Ask him into your life today... He really does make a difference
