Resize image to fit canvas - Gimp

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jezzipin picture jezzipin · Jan 9, 2014 · Viewed 36.1k times · Source

I'm currently using Gimp to resize some images. I'm a web developer but I don't really use image manipulation software much as most of the images are provided by designers so the Gimp tool is very unfamiliar to me. I've looked through all of the tutorials and help guides on the Gimp site but I cannot find the answer to the simplest of questions:

How do you resize a layer to fit within the current canvas whilst maintaining the aspect ratio?

I'm essentially setting a fixed size on my Canvas and importing an image as a layer into my project. What I then wish to do is scale this much larger image down so that is can fit within the Canvas with the aspect ratio preserved. I have found a way of scaling the Canvas to fit a layer but this is not what I am looking for.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Answer

Weston Ganger picture Weston Ganger · Aug 26, 2015

That feature is not in gimp for some reason. An alternative without any scripts is:

Layer -> Scale Layer

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