Re: image defaults

From: Stephen Williams (steve@icarus.com)
Date: Thu Sep 07 2000 - 10:01:01 PDT

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    > In gimp, "Scale" changes the size of the image by scaling the picture, and
    > "Resize" changes the size of the image by clipping or padding.

    johanb@lls.se said:
    > Sorry, but that is not correct. Resize just changes the size of the
    > image, and scale also changes size, but tries to to it without losing
    > image quality

    Isn't that what I said? I didn't name the scaling algorithm, but it
    clearly interpolates when scaling. Resizing just changes the dimensions
    of the image. If the original is bigger, pixels are clipped of, and
    if the original is smaller, transparent pixels are added.

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