How do I cut out an image using Gimp?

Using Gimp to stretch image vs photoshop?

• i tried scaling an image in gimp since i dont have photoshop and it looks really bad basically the overall size of the image is about 1920x resolution so its a really big image except i have to scale the width down to a few hundred it doesnt look proportional is there a way to fix this?

• Answer:

  Stretching an image in Photoshop will look bad as well. You don't want to do this if you can avoid it because it will distort the image. It might be that you are just trying to rescale the entire image proportionally, this can be done in GIMP. Simply click Image > Scale Image, make sure you have the link icon selected (this locks the aspect ratio - a broken link icon unlocks the aspect ratio) type in a new width, and the height will be calculated proportionally, then hit Rescale. If you are trying to change the aspect ratio of an image, without squishing it, you can get the Liquid Rescale plugin for GIMP, this is similar to content aware scaling you can get in Photoshop. Here's the link for the plugin http://liquidrescale.wikidot.com/ Success with Liquid Rescale, however will depend on your image itself and there are limits as to how much you will be able to squish an image without it looking like sh1t. GIMP and Photoshop use special seam carving algorithms to do this kind of stuff - it doesn't work on all images. Photoshop and GIMPs content aware/liquid rescaling is similar, in fact GIMPs is more advanced and controllable, but also more complex to use.