[olug] Graphics

Dave Hull dphull at insipid.com
Sun Jul 20 01:31:00 UTC 2003


On Sat, 19 Jul 2003, Nathan Brown wrote:

> I'm amazed at 'The Gimp'.  What does 'The Gimp' not do that Photoshop does 
> do?  I'm having a bit of a problem though cause I dont' know what I'm doing 
> with graphics.  I have been resizing pictures (rescaling) putting them at 
> 640X480.  Most tally up to 25 or 30 KB.  But this one I have is already at 
> 640X480 and is over 400 KB.   What do I do to get the size down?

It's been a couple of years since I've Gimp, but I recall being able to save 
images as JPEGs and being able to specify parameters relating to compression. 
You might try that.

Good luck.

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Dave Hull
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