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Cropping and adjusting your photo in GIMP for use in Meshmixer

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Cropping and adjusting your photo in GIMP for use in Meshmixer

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- [Instructor] OK, now that you've installed GIMP, I want you to bring it up and this is the GIMP interface. For you, it may look a little bit different if all of your windows are scattered. One of the default things that GIMP does is run in multi-window mode, so if you go up to Windows and say Single Window Mode, it keeps everything inside of one window. I'm going to drag a picture of myself as a younger gentleman with kind of crazy hair into this window. Resized it a bit, so let me get my window back here. I'm not going to give too much of an overview of GIMP, but suffice to say, down here, I'm going to zoom out to much smaller, so that it fits in my small window. We're going to be using this tool right here that looks like a little X-Acto knife. If you click on this, and then draw a box on your window, we're looking to create a square image. As I'm dragging this, you can see down here at the bottom, the rectangle is being resized. I want to try to get this around the size that I…

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