On Wednesday 18 June 2003 17:15, you wrote:

1) filters->blur->gaussian blur, 3 hor, 2, V 2) adjust brightness and contrast: enhance contrast, augment brighness 3) repeat steps 1 and 2 once.

Thank you so much for answering so clearly, and so quickly! :)

I've been playing with it for a few minutes now, and it looks like it can do what I need. Thanks!

Is Gaussian blur what I should use to try to get rid of Bitmapping if I enlarge a digital color picture, too?

Hi there!

Hmmm...Yes... and as far as I know it can cure any disease, and turn plumbum into gold. :-)

Just kidding - but it's really a usefull tool, this blurring. I first met it even before using the GIMP, for making drop shadows by hand.

Just the other day, I met someone who would use Gaussian Blur to make a better "detect edges" than the filters built with this purpose.

And I certeinly use it to eliminate some of the aliasing when I enlarge pictures. Just rest certain to set interpolation type to Cubic, in the
(main)File->Preferences->Enviroment->Scaling settings. It wil;l certainly do you more good than gaussian blurring in this case.

-Dee

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