dumb GIMP question

[Dennis Kibbe]

On Saturday 04 January 2003 02:48 pm, you wrote:
> Any GIMP experts out there? This may seem like a dumb
> question, but so help me, I've tried this at least ten
> different occasions and I can't figure out how to do
> it.
>
> I have a high-resolution JPEG picture: 1600x1200
> pixels. All I want to do is reduce it: save it as a
> 1024x768 or maybe 640x480. I know about Tools ->
> Transform Tools -> Crop & Resize. That works great for
> cropping, but how do I simply shrink the whole image?
>
> I used to use the shareware program xv for this. You
> can select size and say 50% or whatever, and it will
> resize the image retaining the aspect ratio.
>
> There's gotta be something simple that I'm missing.

Several others have answered your question, just let me add that now that 
you've found where image scaling is buried, you can give it a shortcut key 
very simple by highlighting the menu item and pressing the shortcut key you 
want to use - say "Shift S."

Dennis Kibbe