On your computer, with GIMP you can resize pictures easily to later accompany your texts with them. I present you here how to do that using Scale Tool and either manually or numerically shrink a picture. Below is a one minute video followed by explanations and exercises you can download. Don't forget this is the 4th part of GIMP Guide for Authors. Happy editing!
Resizing
- Use Scale tool (S)
- Click on the picture
- Eighth handles appear surrounding the picture
- Drag one handle to any direction, or
- Numerically type width x height values on the dialog,
- Join the chain or break the chain in order to keep or keep no aspect ratio,
- Click Scale button
- Go to menubar Image > Crop to image size > picture resized.
Example
This is the result of one minute video above. Before, here is the original Ubuntu logo:
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCiNzfV1ATlg1JC-Tk_Lf7UwDCJAicoVwefvlgBwV8whii2qG7QDS2nDiUo2ZAPIcb8pnXZDn9UKn5CVTv1brnFW5l7cXRafWg9H2lDWOXZcrnhT67uGgp6_E6YMAvBQzEhvAwVZi7i7Xa/s320/ubuntu-logo14.png)
After, here is Ubuntu logo resized with GIMP:
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJ4AK9GPZVFfsL2vPtgu5cRPiyM9uRFxmdL53YhiN9d6AWRQyj62323nidh0A-2We11DRxgeL685jWQd9mVWeRDjJD9bFa_4EyCYSkYaJXia9VSRVprahyW19dwIGB-jcE4vH0id1nXM5O/s400/ubuntu-logo142.png)
That's all.
Exercises
Below are three exercise you can download the pictures by right click > Save Image As.
Orange section - Here is Ubuntu logo 'Circle of Friends' by 200x200 pixels. Resize this into five standard icon dimensions 128x128 - 96x96 - 64x64 - 48x48 - 16x16. Save them as ubuntu128.png, ubuntu96.png, ubuntu64.png, ubuntu48.png, and ubuntu16.png.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiGVBAJfRFlHbsck6b3RipA9YxgaLbXW61PnC1BaOs23BN3ThRZ8OPP7R_t9YsaWRth7mG240qi7humDHSh4lRAh3yhZbRsFEIDrbL0BPtuKLV48R5zNUnQBR5UaC8LKVF5GcvLaZilTzi/s400/ubuntu-logo32.png)
Green section - here is Ubuntu MATE logo 'Circle of MATEs' by 240x240 pixels. Resize this too into five standard dimensions like above.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoNUmnGnR0nhxbVDB9BPPgXfDSmHqU3Edsdx97urcaBjNwAaoAwt7NNIsWsiXfU2DxkD5CAMEOuNKKFo4Ly7QgAZmJE1ZByNN-lCoZn_3fh7gaVLQUxFKt_mF1k_tf9UYlJML5hIppRUO2/s400/Circle_of_MATEs.png)
Blue section - here is Kubuntu logo by 240x240 pixels. Resize this too into five standard dimensions like above.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht4FUizt5OgWAfFd5gHmNJ9K2laKfN6GTyk82iSATo6ivBCEMQzB7D68aCg1x4iEu2hmviOfaOr_9V_sD37LqehCKqUR15jls-jCHpCeQpIBbmjdJ_WaPRXKrw4MctjfLBlAF3qXKd1r6V/s400/240px-Kubuntu_logo.svg.png)
To be continued...
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