[ale] Converting size with Gimp

[Chris Fowler]

I guess I'm kinda confused as to what I actually need to do.  When I try
to crop to 4x6 in Gimp all I get is a tiny little square.  Since the
actual image is much bigger than 4x6.

The image I'm trying to work with is at

http://66.23.198.2/1.jpg 

You can see what I've done already.


On Sat, 2004-01-31 at 13:32, James Sumners wrote:
> http://freealter.org/doc_distrib/ImageMagick-5.1.1/www/mogrify.html
> 
> Would probably have better luck with that. You can even read the exif data to
> get the date using some of the other ImageMagick tools.
> 
> On 31 Jan 2004 13:05:42 -0500
> Chris Fowler <cfowler at outpostsentinel.com> wrote:
> 
> > I'm trying to use convert to add a white border around my 4.0MP images. 
> > I then use GIMP to write a date on that border.
> > 
> > When I take to Sam's to print it wants to crop the image to 4x6, 5x7, or
> > 8x10.  This cuts off the top half and bottom half of the picture.  I do
> > not care about losing part of the picture I do not want to lose the
> > bottom and top border.  Is there a way I can use GIMP to crop the image
> > to a 4x6 size without it trying to size the image smaller.  I like the 
> > size of the image being big because I want to make sure there is enough
> > data there to print a nice image.
> > 
> > I'm trying to come up with a process to add a border and data to an
> > image before I print them.  I do not like the date on the actual image
> > so I do not allow my camera to create one.  I like the date on the white
> > border I've created.  Now If I can only figure out the perfect font and
> > how to position the date text in the exact center of the white border.
> > 
> > Thanks for the help,
> > Chris
> > 
> > 
> > _______________________________________________
> > Ale mailing list
> > Ale at ale.org
> > http://www.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale
>