Picture software

[Patton Echols]

Jim Smith wrote:
> Is there a simple utility for re-sizing photos? I need to take a few 
> pictures from a digital camera and make them smaller in order to use 
> them as wallpaper on mobile devices. Gimp didn't work for me, probably a 
> user error, and Picasa didn't have an option to create a custom size. 
> I'm using  Karmic.
>   

To do this with gimp, open the picture in gimp then use menu: Image | 
Scale Image . . .  Change the number of pixels to suit.  you can click 
the linked chain (unlinking) to ignore the existing aspect ratio 
(squashing one way or the other). 

To do this from a command line, use the Image Magick tool (named 
imagemagick in the repository)  Then you would use something like this 
command:

$ convert infile.jpg -resize 500x500 outfile.jpg

Note:  If your original image is 3000x2000, you will NOT get a 500x500 
image, you will have an image that fits in a 500x500 box with aspect 
ratio  preserved.

To ignore aspect ratio and make it fit, use:

$ convert infile.jpg -resize 500x500\! outfile.jpg

I don't use fspot so can't advise on that one.  But probably easy clicks 
too.

By the way, cropping in GIMP is pretty easy too.  Let me know if you 
want help.