Liquid Rescale is awesome!

[Mr. Picklesworth]

So I had an image (400x298 pixels) and I needed to make it square...

Oh All The Places You'll Go.jpeg

Bumbled about for a few minutes with the Crop tool, then I remembered about the Liquid Rescale plugin for GIMP (which is now in the repositories). Whipped that out, told the thing to make the image 298x298 pixels, and it magically made everything fit perfectly without losing me any detail and without mangling the content!
This stuff is great

Oh All The Places You'll Go - After LQR.compressed.jpeg


Edit:
The plugin adds Liquid Rescale to the Layer menu.

[glotz]

Yeah, it's a very handy toy. For the interested, its included in the gimp-plugin-registry package in the universe repo.

[billgoldberg]

Yeah, it's a very handy toy. For the interested, its included in the gimp-plugin-registry package in the universe repo.

Thanks, installed as I know I'm going to need it in the future.

[Polygon]

Hey, i tried this, and whenever i try and use it, i end up with a garbled image.....what am i doing wrong? im leaving it at the default settings besides changing the values for what size it should resize to

[diablo75]

How is this different from the standard scale tool included with Gimp (unlocking the aspect ratio before you apply it)?

[zmjjmz]

How is this different from the standard scale tool included with Gimp (unlocking the aspect ratio before you apply it)?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_rescale
It looks at the content of the image and then decides what parts to stretch and what not.
EDIT: Here's a good video on it
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=vIFCV2spKtg

[diablo75]

That's pretty damn cool! Thanks for sharing.

[Prefix100]

Witchcraft.

[-grubby]

Thank you AUR

[glotz]

Here's a mini howto http://liquidrescale.wikidot.com/en:tutorial