[ale] Converting size with Gimp

[Chris Fowler]

I'm talking about inches.

The current image size is aprox. 38x32.  When I place it in the fuji
system to be printed at 4x6 The system wants to crop it slightly.  It
removes part of the bottom and top.  It is like it creates a 4x6 square
and fits it in as best as possible without squashing the image to 4x6. 
I'f I try to crop or resize this image using gimp as 4x6 it will squash
the image and it will also resize the image from 38x32 down to 4x6.  I
just want to somehow crop what the fuji system will crop out so I can
add my border.


On Sat, 2004-01-31 at 14:40, Preston Boyington wrote:
> are you talking "inches" or "pixels"?
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Chris Fowler [mailto:cfowler at outpostsentinel.com]
> > Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2004 1:25 PM
> > To: James Sumners
> > Cc: ale at ale.org
> > Subject: Re: [ale] Converting size with Gimp
> > 
> > 
> > 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
> > > > 
> > > > 
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