reducing size of an image in gimp

[Johnny Rosenberg]

2013/1/24 Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com>:
> On 24 January 2013 19:05, Linda <haniganwork at earthlink.net> wrote:
>> On 01/24/2013 12:34 PM, Doug wrote:
>>> ...
>>> You can't "save" in jpg, you have to export it to anything other than
>>> Gimp's
>>> own file type.
>>>
>>> --doug
>>>
>> You can "save as" to jpg you just have to choose the file type if you don't
>> want Gimp's file type as Mark said in step 3 You can also save in a wide
>> variety of other formats the same way.
>>       Linda
>
> You can't do that any more in the latest version, it is a right pain.

This subject has been discussed a lot on the GIMP mailing list. I
didn't install 2.8 yet (Ubuntu 12.04), but the change has its
advantages (and disadvantages, of course). There are tons of software
out there who has done this for ages, like software for audio- and/or
video editing etc. For example, in Audacity you save everything in
Audacity's native format and if you want a FLAC file (for instance)
you need to export. I think this is very common for non destructive
media editing software in general. Maybe GIMP wants to pretend it is
non destructive…? Well, they are not there yet, I think.


Johnny Rosenberg

> You have to use File > Export.  Also if you open an existing image
> file and edit it you can't just save it, you have to select File >
> Overwrite.
>
> Colin
>
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