Help me please!?

Question

I have GIMP & I want to resize my digital photo for dv lottery with GIMP. So how I will make it?

Answer 1

Go to the "File" menu. Select "Open" and pick your starting picture. Go to the "Image" menu. Select "Scale image" and a requester will appear. Note the chain symbol between the width and height boxes: this affects whether or not you want to keep the proportions of your image. If the chain is solid, then changing either one will affect the other, or if it is broken then they can be adjusted independently (this way, you can distort your image). Click to change the state. With the chain solid (I'm assuming you want to keep your proportions), enter a new figure in either box. Then click on "scale" and the image will be scaled.

You can also resize images from a prompt in an xterm. (You will need a package called imagemagick for this, but this is installed already on most modern distros.) First use the "cd" command to get to the folder where your images are kept. Then type something like
$ convert -resize 160x120 dscf0000.jpg dscf0000.mini.jpg
which will resize "dscf0000.jpg" to 160x120 (or as big as it can be within those limits without being distorted; if you put an ! after the size then it will change to exactly that size, even if it means the picture will be distorted) and save the new file as "dscf0000.mini.jpg". You can do other things with convert; see the man page for more details.