GIMP Tips — Input field math

Tim Wells
2 min readMay 5, 2021

GIMP is one of the best known open source software applications and is often called the open source equivalent of Photoshop. While it does lack some of Photoshop’s more advanced features it is, despite the name, a very powerful image editing tool.

Screenshot of the GIMP application

When creating a new image or scaling an image (or anywhere else you might want to enter in an image or layer size) GIMP has the ability to use input field math.

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Tim Wells

Self taught software developer and photographer.