@@DerMeinStar It's called TEACHING. Teaching involves a lot of talking in order to transfer ones knowledge from one brain to many other inquiring minds. Monkey see Monkey do is showing not teaching. I could show you how to plug something into the wall socket, but that still leaves you ignorant of the dangers doesn't it? But if I were to explain first what electricity is, how it reaches the power socket, explain what electrocution is and how it occurs. what it does to humans and animals when they get electrocuted then you'd know not to touch the prongs of the power cord when you plug it in, because it's very dangerous ans why. You'd know you'd be instantly zapped with high voltage electricity, which would cause the muscles in your hand to clamp shut not allowing you to let go of the cord at the same time stopping your heart and barbecuing your entire body to a crisp within seconds.
thanks. even from that point he still explains way too much. these youtube tutorials are so tilting. they think we care about how the entire gimp engine works. how about just resize the image so i can copy you?
Recently started with Gimp. Using 2.20.24 Have been going through all your tutorials. This one is by far the most important as it deals with scaling and a lot of my work entails printing. Many thanks.
I want to mention that the "none" interpolation is very useful for up-scaling pixel art, and sometimes down-scaling if the pixels are a square size of an exponent of 2 such as 4x4, 8x8, or 16x16 for one dot. It makes pixel art retain its pixelated look without any blurred or smoothed pixels when scaling by doubling or by some exponent of 2 times 100%.
Very interesting! I like these kinds of tutorials that focus on one function of Gimp. It's not something I would have looked at by myself, at least, not at this level of depth. Good work!
I'm glad you do - I enjoy doing them! I wanted to do a deep-dive and do a little research so that viewers like you wouldn't have to. These were all questions I have been wondering myself when using GIMP, so I figured I would answer them. Thanks for watching!
For me at least this is a really good video. I'm old but I can actually understand it! I'm already using Gimp and slowly discovering just how good it is.
While my image ended up being a simple fix, this video is exactly what I was looking for! Using the scale image tool usually shot my picture to shit, but knowing about using Scale Image and the different interpolation settings really helped me out. Thanks!
You can't say that, AI has made this very easy and theirs simple math that helps vector images achieve this effortlessly. I think gimp will always be lacking in upscale capacity, but it's still awesome in it's own way. ❤
There is an exceptional amount of mental deficiency in this comment section “TH-cam goal isn’t teaching. If you want to learn you can purchase his udemy course.” Imagine turning down free knowledge and basically signaling you want information behind a paywall
An image can be scaled to double its width and height without quality loss(each pixel prior to upscaling will be shown 4 times)... but it won't look as pretty and when you scale it down again you will lose quality.
omg ty ty ty for this. I took a small .png of some bats i wanted and made a wonderful brush because of the help from a couple of your tutorials Namaste you wonderful man for helping all of us starting out :D P.S. The brush turned out very good with 10 pictures i made of bats from a small png template, again ty ^.^
Just a bit of advice for the 'scale image' issue. The way you did it only scales the entire work and canvas. I wanted to learn how to just scale the one image layer. It would be helpful to viewers to explain ALL options, not just one. So the one way you kind of just threw aside was what I needed to know.
No problem - and I figured the text would make it easier to keep track of which interpolation setting I was looking at. Glad you noticed. Thanks for watching!
you just squeezed 250,000 pixels into 324 pixels so you lost all your texture and details. Also if you went for 200x200 it would be better but still a huge amount less pixels. If you change the image to 16 bit you'll have a much better color flow. I would find an icon tutorial if you need an image that small with an icon creation program made for this stuff.
When I am trying to make the image smaller (from bigger to smaller) still the quality gets really bad even if I follow your instructions. What could be the reason?
Thank you so much for a great tutorial. Its simply great. There is only one thing that I am not quite sure and I'd extremely grateful for any help or clarification.: If I have understood correctly, Image Size is for the screen display while XY Resolution is for print purposes. If the still images are to be used in a broadcast video on a large 4K screen would an XY Resolution of 72 still be good enough and higher resolutions not have any effect on the screen display? Many thanks for your time and help Best wishes Fariborz
You would have to figure out the space between pixels. If I'm not mistaken XY for pixel images will always come out blurry unless some sort of AI is filling in the gaps, but if you have the scale size lined up with the dimensions you need it will easily scale up with not problem. (Square root as an example)
Is there a plug-in for Gimp like Genuine Fractals or Fred Miranda's SI Pro2? Those two are for Photoshop only. Which raises the question, do Photoshop plug-ins work in Gimp? Or does the method in this video accomplish the same thing?
I just downloaded GIMP and play with it. I always just used Windows Paint, I still have Windows 7 and don't know if the new versions are any different. I scaled up the same image in GIMP with No Halo and with Paint, both 200% and 500% each. I can see no - zero - nothing ... difference. Also, on screen I don't see any difference between 72 ppi and 300ppi.
I'm not sure how you define "quality", but I have the exact opposite experience. Editing an image, I notice lines getting blurrier when I used either of the two halo options, and it was closest to the original in terms of sharpness when using Linear.
But when I scale, I only want to scale one layer at a time. Usually I have one image and a lot of text, designing tee shirts. I can scale the text by using the text tool, not the scale tool, so I only scale the image, and so the simple scale tool works well for me!
In your case I would definitely use the scale tool! I just meant don't use the scale tool if you are trying to scale the entire composition. The scale tool is only for scaling layers, channel, or paths.
Yes - and I wish I would've mentioned that point in the tutorial (I meant to, but forgot). The transformation tools also have the interpolation dropdown.
Hi, maybe I skipped some minutes or something but I don't see how to scale a new layer (e.g. add new-layer from visible) but leaving untoched the base-image
if I push the scale button then GIMP does scale both layers. I'm looking for understand how scaling just 1 layer leaving the ther ones at their own riginal size
in order to create a collage componed of many images, each ones having an own size, each one on a dufferent layer. I'll merge all 'em down at a later time
No - in fact this will produce a much lower quality final product. Every time you transform your image (i.e. scale it up or down, or use any of the transform tools when working on a layer), you are having GIMP rearrange the pixels, which causes quality loss. It is better to have this action performed once, so that quality loss only occurs once, rather than compound quality loss through many transformation actions.
Previous versions of Gimp were giving perfect downscaling with Lanczos method. Now these nohalo & lohalo give blurred and washed image you'd never like to use. Total shit!
What didn't work for you? Are you trying to scale a small image up? If you have a really small image that you are trying to make really large, you will inevitably have more quality loss. That goes for any photo editor.
nohalo or halo ( which are the default rezie methods are the best ) ... thank me later saved you guys 20 mins of your life there is not much info here for 20 mins of video
He talks for 20 minutes. The information you need is at
5:20
saved me so much time thank you
Why people always talking so much for one step
Thaaank you.
@@DerMeinStar It's called TEACHING. Teaching involves a lot of talking in order to transfer ones knowledge from one brain to many other inquiring minds. Monkey see Monkey do is showing not teaching.
I could show you how to plug something into the wall socket, but that still leaves you ignorant of the dangers doesn't it? But if I were to explain first what electricity is, how it reaches the power socket, explain what electrocution is and how it occurs. what it does to humans and animals when they get electrocuted then you'd know not to touch the prongs of the power cord when you plug it in, because it's very dangerous ans why. You'd know you'd be instantly zapped with high voltage electricity, which would cause the muscles in your hand to clamp shut not allowing you to let go of the cord at the same time stopping your heart and barbecuing your entire body to a crisp within seconds.
thanks. even from that point he still explains way too much. these youtube tutorials are so tilting. they think we care about how the entire gimp engine works. how about just resize the image so i can copy you?
Recently started with Gimp. Using 2.20.24 Have been going through all your tutorials. This one is by far the most important as it deals with scaling and a lot of my work entails printing. Many thanks.
I want to mention that the "none" interpolation is very useful for up-scaling pixel art, and sometimes down-scaling if the pixels are a square size of an exponent of 2 such as 4x4, 8x8, or 16x16 for one dot. It makes pixel art retain its pixelated look without any blurred or smoothed pixels when scaling by doubling or by some exponent of 2 times 100%.
Please explain more?
DeanDip ur completely right thx
I had to look this up again and you saved me once again DeanDip, thanks
Interesting theory, I'll have to try this out later. 🥰
Very helpful tip, thanks
Love the honesty at the very beginning about other peoples claims. I had to hit like in under a minute!
Thanks for the like! Honesty is always the best policy.
The best 20 minuets I ever spent thank you for this tutorial! The nohalo/lohalo interpolation segment nails it!
Very interesting! I like these kinds of tutorials that focus on one function of Gimp. It's not something I would have looked at by myself, at least, not at this level of depth. Good work!
I'm glad you do - I enjoy doing them! I wanted to do a deep-dive and do a little research so that viewers like you wouldn't have to. These were all questions I have been wondering myself when using GIMP, so I figured I would answer them. Thanks for watching!
For me at least this is a really good video. I'm old but I can actually understand it! I'm already using Gimp and slowly discovering just how good it is.
While my image ended up being a simple fix, this video is exactly what I was looking for! Using the scale image tool usually shot my picture to shit, but knowing about using Scale Image and the different interpolation settings really helped me out. Thanks!
Really please explain my images loses quality.
Never say that knowledge is boring.
Thank you for sharing.
Thanks for all your video instruction Michael. It's all very helpful and well described.
Thank you very much for watching them!
One of the best demonstrations on youtube.
Thank You! I now understand a bit better! I have been trying to use Gimp for 3 years now.I stay so lost. lolol
You can't say that, AI has made this very easy and theirs simple math that helps vector images achieve this effortlessly. I think gimp will always be lacking in upscale capacity, but it's still awesome in it's own way. ❤
If i want to scale an image of a model below 70% without any text, it gets super pixelated with all interpolation qualities how can i overcome this?
How can i resize a picture that have 1600x738 pixels size and 72x72 PPI RESOLUTION and resize it in 16x12pixels but still looking clear ?
Thorough video. Very educational, I enjoyed watching it. Good job, sir!
Very nice tutorial. Thank you.
Thanks!
I'm new with Gimp, this is very helpful, thank you.
Thank You! Great tutorial! very clear.
You explain things so thoroughly. Thank you!
First class, thorough tutorial (thumbs up)!
Thanks for making it :)
Thank you very much for your videos. I have learned so much through your channel.
There is an exceptional amount of mental deficiency in this comment section
“TH-cam goal isn’t teaching. If you want to learn you can purchase his udemy course.”
Imagine turning down free knowledge and basically signaling you want information behind a paywall
Quite helpful for starters
An image can be scaled to double its width and height without quality loss(each pixel prior to upscaling will be shown 4 times)... but it won't look as pretty and when you scale it down again you will lose quality.
omg ty ty ty for this. I took a small .png of some bats i wanted and made a wonderful brush because of the help from a couple of your tutorials Namaste you wonderful man for helping all of us starting out :D P.S. The brush turned out very good with 10 pictures i made of bats from a small png template, again ty ^.^
Just a bit of advice for the 'scale image' issue. The way you did it only scales the entire work and canvas. I wanted to learn how to just scale the one image layer. It would be helpful to viewers to explain ALL options, not just one. So the one way you kind of just threw aside was what I needed to know.
Very informative. Thank you.
Thank you ...excellent as always
awesome details, thank you for sharing
I learn a lot. Thanks
thank you for going into detail i like the blue text
No problem - and I figured the text would make it easier to keep track of which interpolation setting I was looking at. Glad you noticed. Thanks for watching!
Thanks! Amazing video!
Thanks for watching!
Really helpful video. Thank you very much.
Glad to hear it - thanks for watching!
8:01 - For me is the meat of this video.
17:43 - Scaling up images with text (LoHalo vs NoHalo)
This was so helpful. Thanks.
Thanks for watching as always!
learnt something ueful. Thank you
ask, how to scale image in layer without quality loss too?
IT didnt work i resized from 500x500 to 18x18 and the qualty is very bad. And when I used photoshop it was fine, but I dont have anymore my Free trial
same
you just squeezed 250,000 pixels into 324 pixels so you lost all your texture and details. Also if you went for 200x200 it would be better but still a huge amount less pixels. If you change the image to 16 bit you'll have a much better color flow. I would find an icon tutorial if you need an image that small with an icon creation program made for this stuff.
When I am trying to make the image smaller (from bigger to smaller) still the quality gets really bad even if I follow your instructions. What could be the reason?
Please explain?
There are limitations
what answers the title is at 13:32
How does upping your ppi to 300 effect the interpolation?
It doesn't.
Thank you so much for a great tutorial. Its simply great. There is only one thing that I am not quite sure and I'd extremely grateful for any help or clarification.:
If I have understood correctly, Image Size is for the screen display while XY Resolution is for print purposes. If the still images are to be used in a broadcast video on a large 4K screen would an XY Resolution of 72 still be good enough and higher resolutions not have any effect on the screen display?
Many thanks for your time and help
Best wishes
Fariborz
You would have to figure out the space between pixels. If I'm not mistaken XY for pixel images will always come out blurry unless some sort of AI is filling in the gaps, but if you have the scale size lined up with the dimensions you need it will easily scale up with not problem. (Square root as an example)
Thank you!
Thanks.
I dont understand how scaling down an image causes it to lose quality
Because you are removing pixels from the original image. By removing pixels, you're removing details, which reduces the quality.
Is there a plug-in for Gimp like Genuine Fractals or Fred Miranda's SI Pro2? Those two are for Photoshop only. Which raises the question, do Photoshop plug-ins work in Gimp? Or does the method in this video accomplish the same thing?
Very Good!
Thank you!
I just downloaded GIMP and play with it. I always just used Windows Paint, I still have Windows 7 and don't know if the new versions are any different.
I scaled up the same image in GIMP with No Halo and with Paint, both 200% and 500% each. I can see no - zero - nothing ... difference.
Also, on screen I don't see any difference between 72 ppi and 300ppi.
I have a pixelized image that I would to smooth out for a good image for laser engraving
Resynthesizer has its own upscaler. Tried that?
I'm not sure how you define "quality", but I have the exact opposite experience. Editing an image, I notice lines getting blurrier when I used either of the two halo options, and it was closest to the original in terms of sharpness when using Linear.
But when I scale, I only want to scale one layer at a time. Usually I have one image and a lot of text, designing tee shirts. I can scale the text by using the text tool, not the scale tool, so I only scale the image, and so the simple scale tool works well for me!
In your case I would definitely use the scale tool! I just meant don't use the scale tool if you are trying to scale the entire composition. The scale tool is only for scaling layers, channel, or paths.
@@DaviesMediaDesign "What the man says" - and the scale tool comes with all the same interpolation methods, so we're good for layer scaling, too.
Yes - and I wish I would've mentioned that point in the tutorial (I meant to, but forgot). The transformation tools also have the interpolation dropdown.
@@DaviesMediaDesign easy to do, when you're in the moment.
I'm thinking teleprompter software to keep me on topic 😆
is there any way to scale a simple image down to 16x16 without completely ruining the image?
Heureusement qu'il y a d'autres vidéos sur TH-cam qui explique très bien la chose et qui vend directement à l'essentiel en quelques minutes
5 minutes in n you haven't explained how to scale an image, this new feature where the dislikes are gone is a pain
Thanks
👍Thanks
I'm trying to get a scale image to 3x4 but with 600ppi how do I do that ?
THANKS" BIG TIME
Hi, maybe I skipped some minutes or something but I don't see how to scale a new layer (e.g. add new-layer from visible) but leaving untoched the base-image
if I push the scale button then GIMP does scale both layers. I'm looking for understand how scaling just 1 layer leaving the ther ones at their own riginal size
in order to create a collage componed of many images, each ones having an own size, each one on a dufferent layer. I'll merge all 'em down at a later time
Read my article on how to resize a layer: daviesmediadesign.com/how-to-resize-a-layer-in-gimp/
oke fine nohalo lo halo
i dont get any of this? i tried scaling it and it didn't do anything... i tried scaling it to 10x14 and it was still blurry
How to reduce the file size. I am not able to do that following these instructions
None of these literally worked. xD
he is a graphic designer, not a magician.
Is there any advantage in scaling up or down in lots of small steps rather than just one large step?
No - in fact this will produce a much lower quality final product. Every time you transform your image (i.e. scale it up or down, or use any of the transform tools when working on a layer), you are having GIMP rearrange the pixels, which causes quality loss. It is better to have this action performed once, so that quality loss only occurs once, rather than compound quality loss through many transformation actions.
@@DaviesMediaDesign Thanks for that...that's helpful.
After scaling the pictures if I want to crop the picture, will be losing quality? Or I need to another steps?
Using the crop tool to crop your images will not cause your image to lose quality.
@@DaviesMediaDesign OK thanks
I don't have lohalo and no halo on mine. What should I do?
Are you using an older version?
@@DaviesMediaDesignI have Gimp 2. Maybe its older?
You talk about scaling down, what about scaling up. I'm specially interested in NoHalo and LoHalo interpolation options.
Previous versions of Gimp were giving perfect downscaling with Lanczos method. Now these nohalo & lohalo give blurred and washed image you'd never like to use. Total shit!
Simple takeaway here: DON'T UPSCALE FOR PRINT WITHOUT A 3rd-Party A.I. TOOL, unless you're okay with it looking kinda fuzzy.
So there is no way to rotate my image without losing g quality?🙆🙆🙆
it dosent resize i click scale it just dosent do it tf ;/
thanks for making me watch 20 minutes of video when you could have just resized an image in 30 seconds and i could've just simply did the same thing.
You think you can scale a picture for me?
That poor girl has a problem, she wants to look out the window but the blinds are shut! What is she to do?
Easily fixed in GIMP!
He speaks forever OMG
Doesn't work
what I have worst image ever :( dont work for me
Are you trying to scale a small image up to a very large size (or vice versa)?
No. Resized from 1440x1080 to 400x300 but i think there is no other way :) Thx for reply tho
Am I the only one who chuckles every time he says ppi (pee pee)
There are a few grown-ups here too :-P
@@AlexandreProkoudine I'm a bit childish
If you like then: look down your shirt and spell *Attic* ;)
4 years ago and then along came AI.
ye but how about m a x i m u m q u a l i t y l o s s
nohalo, lohalo, nohalo, lohalo....
That didnt work im afraid
What didn't work for you? Are you trying to scale a small image up? If you have a really small image that you are trying to make really large, you will inevitably have more quality loss. That goes for any photo editor.
Gimp 2.8 give better results.
It shouldn't - GIMP 2.10 has better interpolation options.
pos free program.
I'm glad he didn't start from the ice age.....
Turned off after two minutes far too much waffle.
This is way too long man.
This guy don't know how to explain to beginners
awesome doesnt work at all!
nohalo or halo ( which are the default rezie methods are the best ) ... thank me later saved you guys 20 mins of your life there is not much info here for 20 mins of video
Man.....thanks for the info but could you get to the point a bit sooner?
Thanks for the feedback - I'll work on it!
@RDE Lutherie Seems like you're the one bitching bitch!
you talk to much!
damn, dude...get to the point!
God this is so much talkking for so little info, you could have made this 2 minutes and still explained almost everything you did.
Thanks a lot, I learnt a lot!
Thanks for watching!