Shrinking the size of images in gimp

Wed Aug 4 15:13:43 UTC 2004

On Wed, 4 Aug 2004, Devin Whalen wrote:

> Hey,
>
> I know I should RTFM for this but I don't really have time.  I am at
> work and I want to email some pictures, however the file sizes are too
> big.  I know that you can shrink the size of a file in Photoshop...but
> is there a way in gimp?  I have gimp 2.0.  I really don't want to have
> to shut down everything and boot up windows just to do this :).  Thanks
> for any help.

      It's much simpler to use ImageMagick:

convert -size 100x100 -resize 100x100  file.jpg smallfile.jpg

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