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Common Tasks in GIMP®

As with any program, there are some tasks that you do over and over. In GIMP® those tasks include resizing an image, cropping an image, and making the background transparent.

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Scaling an Image
Resizing an image is making the image larger or smaller -- similar to making a 4" x 6" photograph into a 5" x 7" photograph or making a 5" x 7" photograph into a 4" x 6 " photograph. It is different than resizing the canvas of an image, where you increase to the size of the canvas and simply add more background to the image or you decrease the size of the canvas and if the image is close to the edges of the canvas, you may "cut off" part of the image.	pdf	Fireman.jpg
Cropping an Image
Cropping an image means to select a rectangular area of an image that you want to preserve and get rid of everything else.	pdf	Fire_Pole.jpg
Making the Background of an Image Transparent
A transparent image allows the background of color a Web page to display around the image without having a square or a rectangle area of white (or another color) around the image.	pdf