Gimp and the Liquid Rescale plugin

Gimp is free software for editing and publishing of raster (or bitmap). Some compare Gimp to Photoshop.

Liquid Rescale is a plugin for Gimp added since 2007. It resizes photographs intelligently. Professionals use the advanced options of the fonctionality to make impressive collages. Why speak about this plugin today ? Firstly, this plugin is constantly being improved. It is easy to use to resize the images quickly to put them on a website. But mostly, we read many articles on the internet praising this future functionality in the next Photoshop. It's time to introduce this feature and highlight the part of the contribution of OSS in creation.

The images are essential

Everyone wants a successful site. For this, the recipe is simple:

• A clear writing style,

• Intelligent content,

• An organized hierarchy of categories of site,

• A good presentation.

One of the ingredients of a good presentation of a website is the presence of images! They brighten up a site and catch the eye. A good way to remember the user and arouse his curiosity about them read your article.

Images adapted

Add an image to an article is not an easy task. There are several factors to consider. Today we learn to overcome one major difficulty: retouching photography to adjust its format to the editorial line.

Your site provides the automatic integration of images in a certain format, for example, 400 pixel width and height. This format is required by the template of your site. Of course, the size of your image is 4000 x 3000 pixel. It is time to open a software image editing to resize your image.

Here is the original image

A classical scaling changes the proportionality of your image, horribly distorted its contents!

Liquid Rescale offers intelligent resizing, it retains the proportions of objects and reduces the rest, so people do not seem stretched or rammer.

Effective is not it? This plugin makes many services and is so simple!

To go further

Options allow people to delete people or images require some alterations with the help of other tools. We can talk about it if you wish.

Where is Gimp ?

To use this great plugin, install The Gimp, free and legally on your machine. Then find this feature at the bottom of the Layer menu.

With this plugin Gimp and not lose more time to edit your images!