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List:       gimp-user
Subject:    Re: [Gimp-user] Correcting "grainy" resolution?
From:       john Culleton <John () wexfordpress ! com>
Date:       2014-01-26 15:00:35
Message-ID: 20140126100035.6404a7d0 () localb ! wexfordpress ! net
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On Fri, 24 Jan 2014 20:24:59 +0100
pfaoro <forums@gimpusers.com> wrote:

> Is there a (simple) way to blow up a snapshot
> originally take with a slow, cheap, disposable
> camera without having the result so grainy that
> it isn't usable?
> 


You can't increase dot density in a bitmap file.
Facing that problem I would import the bitmap
file into Inkscape and then convert it to a
vector file. Then I would blow up the vector
file. You will lose some detail but at least it
won't be grainy. 


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