Liquid Rescale is awesome!

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

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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 :)

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

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

glotz said: 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.

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

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

diablo75 said: 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

That's pretty damn cool! Thanks for sharing.

Witchcraft.

Thank you AUR

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

You learn something new every day :)

Great stuff :KS