This is something I can not wrap my head around no matter how many different articles I read, so I am hoping that by posting here someone will give me steps that make sense. 

I have an image that is 2201 x 1240 x 72 ppi.  I want to take a portion of it and make it 8-1/2" x 11" x 300 ppi to put on the cover of a magazine in Scribus.  I achieved this in Photoshop CS2, but I can't for the life of me, get it to work in GIMP.  The image comes in huge and when scaled to the frame, reduces the ppi to way too low, or the image comes in too small, and still doesn't work when resized. 

Please, please, please walk me through the steps of making a selection, cropping, resizing, setting the print size and the ppi and making sure that when I bring the file into Scribus, the image will be exactly sized to an 8-1/2" x 11" frame and be 300 ppi.

I don't know why this is so hard for me.  I have more than one Scribus book, for artist and photographer, and I have read online tutorials and the help file about resizing, re-sampling and setting print size, yet I can't get it to work.  I have to go to bed because I am so stinking tired, but I will check back after Thanksgiving dinner tomorrow night to see if anyone has come up with a way to help my oh-so-thick self.

Thank you.

Hello.

Two .xcf files are opened.  File-01 and File-02.  Both have a resolution of 72x72 ppi.  

I copied a layer that is in File-02 onto File-01, then scaled said layer such that it is now significantly smaller and looks like a thumbnail.

The problem is that I cannot make this resized layer as sharp as it was in its original size.

I need to print it as a flier so I need the pictures to be sharp, even if they are small.

Any ideas?

Thank you for your time.

Using Windows and having problems finding and installing up-to-date resynthesizer / heal-selection plugins?

I bundled the required files into a zip 

http://www.mediafire.com/file/gwc928wmwt..._32_64.zip

There are some horrible advertisements on mediafire these days. For a 64 bit resynthesizer + the heal selection python plugin there is a download here:
https://www.gimp-forum.net/Thread-Resynt...7#pid12687

Download, un-zip, use either the 64 or 32 bit versions of resynthesizer & resynthesizer-gui depending on your Windows installation.

Gimp 2.8
Copy the required files into C:\Users\"yourname"\.gimp-2.8\plug-ins

Gimp 2.10
Copy the required files into C:\Users\"yourname"\AppData\Roaming\GIMP\2.10\plug-ins

For Gimp 2.8 - Gimp 2.10 is similar. This video about installation in Windows 10. 3 minutes duration.

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I think my main complaint is the white outline, that i added for contrast, but it looks odd to me....

Tried using a trick learned from Phlearn (YT channel) and look at the image in b/w.
It looks good to me, with the exception that the white outline perhaps steals the show from the extruded text...

Maybe its really because the perspective of the text is odd. We are looking at the text from the top, but at the same time its extrusion is going up.

I find it really hard sometimes, making something look professional....



   

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and got this interesting splash screen

   

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My latest Restoration
https://www.flickr.com/photos/115367823@N05/31009882065/sizes/c/

Original size
https://www.flickr.com/photos/115367823@...5/sizes/o/

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Can i simplify this more to just convert a layer to greyscale?

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