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Tutorial: Enlarge an image with little loss using Gimp

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The tutorial Today is one of those simple tutorials that are exhausted in a passage. More than a tutorial would call advice useful to remember.

Let's say you have a picture medium / small, not suitable for printing, we want larger than twice. Until today I expanded work space with “Picture” – “Scale Image” and inserting the double values, but I just recently discovered a way to resize them in excess with a higher yield using G’MIC, the plugins that we had already discussed, that does it all.

Let's say you have a picture very small, 150×200 px. Of course we all know that is impossible to enlarge a small image without loss, and even this procedure is not without loss of information, on the other hand applies the small improvements to “simulate” magnification without loss.

The picture is taken into consideration this, a fine example of a golden retriever adult.

As you can see the dimensions are very small, but now we will use G’MIC. Let's go over “Filters” – “G’MIC” and click on the settings “Enchancement” – “Smart upscale” with the following values.

The image will be drawn twice the size and the loss you will notice, however,, but will always be less than the tool “Scala .

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I keep this blog as a hobby by 2009. I am passionate about graphic, technology, software Open Source. Among my articles will be easy to find music, and some personal thoughts, but I prefer the direct line of the blog mainly to technology. For more information contact me.

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