@hsmokey
Lets go back to the earlier posts
Read Ofnuts article on print size, quality ...
Gimp uses pixels not inches so you should work in pixels. However...
Whatever the pixels-per-inch (ppi) of the template and even if the image to enlarge has a different ppi, when added to the template it acquires the template ppi. Which is why it is smaller (or larger) than expected.
My advice is use the menu entry Layer -> Scale Layer instead of the image scale tool. Then if you want to use inches (or pixels) change the size to suit.
A 40 second animation of that: https://i.imgur.com/owi0q8Z.mp4
...of course scaling an image up by a considerable amount will degrade the quality, up to you to determine what is acceptable.
Lets go back to the earlier posts
Quote:... I would like to make larger so it fills the template I've created. The template size is 12x12 inches, however, I'm unable to increase the size of the image I've added to it (have tried Image > Scale Image
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- The image I'm trying to enlarge is currently 1024x1024 pixels-
Read Ofnuts article on print size, quality ...
Gimp uses pixels not inches so you should work in pixels. However...
Whatever the pixels-per-inch (ppi) of the template and even if the image to enlarge has a different ppi, when added to the template it acquires the template ppi. Which is why it is smaller (or larger) than expected.
My advice is use the menu entry Layer -> Scale Layer instead of the image scale tool. Then if you want to use inches (or pixels) change the size to suit.
A 40 second animation of that: https://i.imgur.com/owi0q8Z.mp4
...of course scaling an image up by a considerable amount will degrade the quality, up to you to determine what is acceptable.