Gimp - resizing parts of an image.

[Orographic]

Hi all,

I am fairly new to Ubuntu but am really enjoying it. I have Intrepid installed and Gimp 2.6 and want to know how I can resize parts of an image.

For example: If I want to slightly reduce/increase the size of a nose or ears or bust etc, how would I do this? I do mostly landscape photography but now and then fiddle around with portraits.

Thanks so much for any help offered.

[olskar]

The only thing I can think of is marking the thing you want to resize, cut it out, put in another layer, then rightclicking the layer and choose resize layer..

[bambootree]

or you can:
1. Make a selection.
2. Select > Float (or Shift+Ctrl+L).
3. Select the Scale tool and drag the floating selection to resize it (or type numbers in the Scale dialogue box).
4. When you're happy with the result, just click the Anchor the floating layer button in the Layers Dialog.

[Orographic]

Thanks, will look at it more soon.

[Orographic]

Okay, found a great way to do this that is as good or better than what I was doing in PS7:

Choose a select tool then roughly select the area that you want to shrink, then go to:

Filters -> Distorts -> Iwarp.

Select "shrink"

and then you can shrink it or grow it etc by clicking your mouse over the preview picture within Iwarp.

Thanks to Melacon on Whirlpool forums for his/her help:

http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum....cfm?t=1092720

[rebaccawood911]

You will have a options to do that kind of works like dragging or cutting or enlarging check it,,,


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