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Rating: 9.89 Votes: 19
Views: 6268		By: War Griffon
Category: General Subcategory: PhotographyDate: 2008-07-31 03:45:10
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The next step is basically a repeat of the steps that we carried out in the basics. We need to Shrink/Scale our image.

So, select Image/Scale Image



In the window that appears change the width to 600 pixels. Then click on the chain next to the image size to automatically adjust the height and then when happy click on the Scale Button.

Next we need to flatten the image so if you remember from earlier we need to choose Image and from that menu choose Flatten Image.



After this we are at the saving stage so you need to select File and from this menu select Save As and do as we did before, saving the photo as a jpeg and making sure we are within the file size limits that we need to comply for whichever site we are going to post our photo on.

As I mentioned before my package of choice is Photoshop so for those of you that can already use The GIMP you can probably add different ways of doing some of the things I have covered here but my main aim here is to give people a basic awareness of how to use this package to hopefully post better photos of their work in this hobby rather than spend a small fortune on the more expensive packages that are out there.
To that end I hope this article has helped those that find the idea of editing photos way above their heads or out of their price/budget range.

Enjoy and have fun.

Martyn (War Griffon)

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sambu
02 March 10
 Rating: 10
Excellent, I had no idea it was that easy! Cheers
In Chigh P.I.
28 March 09
 Rating: 10
Thanks for this, most useful
Bale Eye
26 February 09
 Rating: 10
Absolutely fantastic - tried it on a few of my photos taken with my dodgy camera - much improved. Thanks!!
Voodoodood
12 January 09
 Rating: 9
This is so so helpful. Brilliantly talked through and for the sake of half an hour to read through it i feel i can accomplish just about anything photo wise with this program. Much thanks.
hubbabubba
19 November 08
 Rating: 10
GOOD'UN
blackfly
12 November 08
 Rating: 10
All hail GNU!

Thanks for doing this, and thanks for doing it well.
jarhead
15 August 08
 Rating: 10
Great Article!
Mr Scream
15 August 08
 Rating: 10
Dude that was soooo useful .. my eternal gratitude is send your way !
DarkTower
12 August 08
 Rating: 10
Great article and comes handy after I published my quick quide about fast-making photos of minis on coloured background without photoshop correction at http://dtsmodelling.blogspot.com/
Neomensu
09 August 08
 Rating: 10
Brillant Article. Helped me out big time. been having trouble all week getting pics of my models up and this has solved it. Thanks again War Griffon
TyronMagda
06 August 08
 Rating: 10
Great & useful article, many thanks!!!
lizcam
04 August 08
 Rating: 10
Really good article even with the loading issues. Thanks for the time and effort that went into this!
daddyo
03 August 08
 Rating: 10
Thank you for this article. Especially since I'm a cheap son-of-a-gun. or something...
Gilvan Blight
01 August 08
 Rating: 9
Good article. Glad to see you got past the odd CMON system issues. If I didn't use PS already this would have converted me from Paint Shop Pro to GIMP.
hakoMike
31 July 08
 Rating: 10
Thanks!
airhead
31 July 08
 Rating: 10
Had this been around when I was trying to use GIMP, I probably never would have gone to PS.

Very good and easy to follow.
Aliengod3
31 July 08
 Rating: 10
Great article.
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