fr0stbound Posted April 30, 2008 CID Share Posted April 30, 2008 Can someone teach how to change the DPI on Gimp? All I can see is PPI, what I need is DPI and I don't know hoe to convert or change it. I want to set it to 300 DPI. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fr0stbound Posted May 1, 2008 Author CID Share Posted May 1, 2008 Nevermind. I found out i just read the instructions wrong. It is PPI. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roco Posted May 1, 2008 CID Share Posted May 1, 2008 Nevermind. I found out i just read the instructions wrong. It is PPI. if all else fails read the destructions I guess BTW just googled "Gimp " fr0stbound what are you using it for ,if you don't mind me asking ? as it looks good for photographic stuff , I only do basic , and use Adobe photodeluxe , it's old now but came free with a scanner , Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fr0stbound Posted May 2, 2008 Author CID Share Posted May 2, 2008 Well I needed an image manipulating program and can't buy Photoshop, so I went with it. I'm such a cheapskate. Yeah, it's pretty good with photos, I mainly use it to just scale some pictures to the right printing size. Just so happens I got a very peculiar request from a friend. Which gave me back the problem. Gimp measures PPI in X axis and Y axis. It appears that in Photoshop, you just set a single value. My friend said 300 PPI, and he thinks I do it with Photoshop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roco Posted May 2, 2008 CID Share Posted May 2, 2008 lol I had photoshop 8 on my box , but I never used it , far to complicated for my limited use , lol we must be Bro's as I use all the free stuff also , just for scaning old 50 year old photos of late husbands etc , I have used photofiltre http://www.snapfiles.com/get/photofiltre.html and it seemed good , but I have been using adobe photodeluxe for more than 5 years so I fall back on that most of the time , old habits die hard I guess , but it won't run on Vista and one of the reasons I am staying with Xp Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fr0stbound Posted May 2, 2008 Author CID Share Posted May 2, 2008 Photofiltre sounds nice. I'll give it a go. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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