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Using GIMP to Crop, Scale, and Compress a Social Media Avatar

Episode 541
January 31, 2018

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Social media have restrictions on things like dimensions, filesize, and aspect ratio. Using the free GNU Image Manipulation Program, we'll learn to create a perfectly square avatar, scale it down to the right size, and compress the file to a JPG for use on our profile.

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