11-24-2016, 03:52 AM
This is something I can not wrap my head around no matter how many different articles I read, so I am hoping that by posting here someone will give me steps that make sense.
I have an image that is 2201 x 1240 x 72 ppi. I want to take a portion of it and make it 8-1/2" x 11" x 300 ppi to put on the cover of a magazine in Scribus. I achieved this in Photoshop CS2, but I can't for the life of me, get it to work in GIMP. The image comes in huge and when scaled to the frame, reduces the ppi to way too low, or the image comes in too small, and still doesn't work when resized.
Please, please, please walk me through the steps of making a selection, cropping, resizing, setting the print size and the ppi and making sure that when I bring the file into Scribus, the image will be exactly sized to an 8-1/2" x 11" frame and be 300 ppi.
I don't know why this is so hard for me. I have more than one Scribus book, for artist and photographer, and I have read online tutorials and the help file about resizing, re-sampling and setting print size, yet I can't get it to work. I have to go to bed because I am so stinking tired, but I will check back after Thanksgiving dinner tomorrow night to see if anyone has come up with a way to help my oh-so-thick self.
Thank you.
I have an image that is 2201 x 1240 x 72 ppi. I want to take a portion of it and make it 8-1/2" x 11" x 300 ppi to put on the cover of a magazine in Scribus. I achieved this in Photoshop CS2, but I can't for the life of me, get it to work in GIMP. The image comes in huge and when scaled to the frame, reduces the ppi to way too low, or the image comes in too small, and still doesn't work when resized.
Please, please, please walk me through the steps of making a selection, cropping, resizing, setting the print size and the ppi and making sure that when I bring the file into Scribus, the image will be exactly sized to an 8-1/2" x 11" frame and be 300 ppi.
I don't know why this is so hard for me. I have more than one Scribus book, for artist and photographer, and I have read online tutorials and the help file about resizing, re-sampling and setting print size, yet I can't get it to work. I have to go to bed because I am so stinking tired, but I will check back after Thanksgiving dinner tomorrow night to see if anyone has come up with a way to help my oh-so-thick self.
Thank you.