# Re: image defaults

From: Arnaud Calvo (arnaud@calvo-france.com)
Date: Wed Sep 06 2000 - 23:46:41 PDT

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  On 06-Sep-2000 Stephen Williams wrote:

  >> "The best hope, though, is to find the natural resolution of the
  >> scanner, and scan at that resolution." How can I find that ?
  >
  > Lucky guess, I think. The information consumers get from their scanners
  > is pretty darn close to useless. However, some scanner specifications
  > give an "optical" resolution. If yours does, that is the magic number.

  It's written "optical resolution : 600dpi x 1200dpi".
  So I should scan at 600 ?

  > arnaud@calvo-france.com said:
  >> What's the difference beetween "scale" and "resize"
  >
  > 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.

  Thank you.
  In fact, I used to call the scale function "resize", and the resize function
  "clip" ;-)))

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