I was trying to select and image so I could drag the corners to the size I want and nothing works? I wanted to make the pasted image larger. Does gimp not have this simple function? This is the most confusing program I have used and it seems to be much more difficult to use than it needs to be. I even had a problem saving a file, it didn’t save the changes I made but saved the original pasting. WTH, Plus I tried to make a new folder to save the file and the new folder was never created, it just saved the file itself???
I was trying to select and image so I could drag the corners to the
size I want and nothing works?
GIMP is indeed not aimed at absolute beginners, but more at
professional users. That doesn’t mean people won’t help you learn: we
all started out as beginners once.
You can use “Scale Image’ from the Image menu to scale the image to a
specific number of pixels.
You can also use the Scale tool, or the Unified Transform Tool, both in
the Tools menu and in the toolbox, to scale the image, by going to Tool
Options and switching them to operate on the whole image instead of on
the active layer. Do this by clicking on the little pictures to the
right of the word Mode.
You can find Tool Options by going to Windows and it’s the first item
under Dockable Di=logues.
A pasted layer may turn out as a “floating selection” in GIMP. You can
avoid this by going to the Edit men and choose, Paste As, and then New
Layer in Place, to paste as a new layer. You can then use the scale
tool and the uniform transform tool to scale this layer by dragging it.
Make sure you press Enter, or OK, when you are done, to confirm your
changes.
When you export a file, export as png if there is transparency you want
preserved, or as jpeg otherwise (.JPG), but a little quality is lost
when you export to jpeg files.
I don’t know why you had problems with making a new folder.
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Oh I am not a beginner… I have used microsoft picture it for many years and once in a while adobe.
OK tried the paste in place and it pastes only a very small portion of the picture.I tried scaling the image (which should be in inches instead of pixels to make it easier) and all it did was to make the small portion of the picture smaller.
The designers could definitely take hints from microsoft pictureit to make this much more user friendly. It is even more complicated that adobe was. The only reason I tried gimp is that it is supposed to help replace the other program since it is no longer compatible with windows upgrades. I can find NOTHING similar to the pictureit.
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