Hello,

My girlfriend sent me a picture which has the dimension 449x1193. When I
use it as a wallpaper, it occupies the central part of the display. It can
be tiled to occupy accross the display. Then it has all the icons on the
image and it would not be portable to other systems. Using GIMP, how do I
create large tiled image from this small image? I would like to put this
image on other systems as well.

Any help appreciated.

Thank you in advance.

BT

Ben Theil wrote:

I suspect the very nice "make seamless" tool may be what you're after.
This is accessed by [right-click in image] --> filters --> map --> make
seamless. Even if this doesn't work well with your picture (success
depends largely on what sort of composition you have) it's a great one
to remember for future use.

Rob

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On Tue, 03 Feb 2004 12:37:23 -0600, Ben Theil thoughtfully wrote:

I don't use GIMP because it's too complex for me. I use gthumb for (jpg,
tif, gif, png, tif, tga) normal viewing, slideshows,
brightness/color/contrast enhancements, resizing and converting formats
(to gif,jpg,tga,tif) I use ImageMagic to annotate pics.

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On Tue, 03 Feb 2004 12:37:23 -0600, Ben Theil staggered into the Black
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Um, your last sentence doesn't really parse. ?

Open image, right-click, Filters->Map->Tile... , make sure the "create
new image" box is checked, enter the new width and height you want,
click OK. Gimp *will* clip things if the new width and height are not
exact multiples of the original image's width and height--so you'd be
better off entering exact multiples then manually cropping the final
image down to 1024x768 or whatever.

Google for "Gimp user manual" for a pretty good set of tips and tricks
and documentation for Gimp. Also look in /usr/share/doc/gimp* ; most
distros install a set of HTML docs there. HTH,

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On Tue, 03 Feb 2004 19:33:38 +0000, Dances With Crows wrote:

I thought that, I cant see what he means.

Dave

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Noi wrote:
How does that help Mr Theil?

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Ben Theil wrote:
Let me guess, its a screenshot of part of her desktop?

Open the image up in GIMP and use the crop/resize tool to crop the
screenshot to the area of a single tile.

Or, if you're still with your g/f you can get her to just send the
wallpaper. ;-P


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On 2004-02-03, Ben Theil <noname@nowhere.net> wrote:
Not real sure what you mean here. Have you created a tiled image that is
now your wallpaper or has your desktop somehow taken a single image and
tiled it across the screen? If it is the later, you can do an x screenshot
capture by using import (see man import), or if you're using kde, ksnapshot.
You can then change its size with gimp. If you only have a single image and want
to make a tiled image, you can use Gimp. Open single image file and right
click on it and :

filter > map > tile

I'll let you figure out the tile function. When finished save as .jpg file.

Open your new tiled .jpg file in Gimp and right click on image:

image > scale image

This will open the scale image box. Using the top half of box, you can
resize image (see "new width" window). The button to the right will let you
choose pixels (px) or percentage (%) of the original image size. The weird
loops next to the "ratio x,y" windows are supposed to represent the links in
a chain, meaning the ratios are linked together. When they are linked, x
and y will stay in correct ratio to each other no matter what you resize the
new image to. If you click on the links (they separate) then the x and y
can be set seperately. Save the new resized image as a .jpg file and you
can use it on any system.


Here's a gimp tutorial.

http://www.gimp.org/tutorials.html

You can also access gimp's user manual by hitting F1 while in gimp.

nb