How to Reduce an Image in Gimp without Destorting the image

[Clyde]

So Im saving this banner from the Internet (someone tells me I can advertsie for them). On my pc, then open it up in gimp, but the Banner is to large, tried to reduce the image, but it gets Destorted, and the quality is reduced, any way to reduce the image size, and keep the quality. Thanks.

[FairComplexioned]

when you say size do you mean the memory or the physical size

if its memory then there is no way you can make it smaller but with good quality
as memory size gets smaller quality is reduced - its how it is.

if its physical size then you'll have to crop, scale or reduce it. . .

[BornofFire]

"PIXresizer" is a photo resizing program to easily create web and email friendly versions of your images with reduced file sizes. The reduced files are saved in a different folder, so your original images are not altered at all. PIXresizer offers several different resizing methods to choose from and can automatically recognize image sizes to calculate the best fit. In addition, it can convert between image formats (JPEG, GIF, BMP, PNG and TIFF), rotate images, convert to grayscale and resize multiple images in batch mode.

Easy to use & navigate

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[Fort]

If the image is just to big to work with, but you need to keep the resolution then you can zoom out. Otherwise scaling the image is the only way of actually "shrinking" the image.