I have an image that one of my friends would like to use as a background for his desktop. This is from another forum, I already tried Sharpen on it after re-sizing and before, so is there anything in the Massive world of GIMP that could help?
He needs dimensions 1366 X 768 on this image.



this is my best efforts Image This might be a bit different from the image above, there were many different Pictures posted and I don't remember which one I used.
Thanks,
Willy

I like that Willy

I think I may have just made it better yet

The second attempt is much better and not as pixelated.Which program did you use?

G'MIC, Smart Re-size or something, and X4 it then I re-sized that smaller

It did a very nice job, anyone happen to be able to test that on there background? I have really really high Res and my screen looks like really bad when I set it anywhere near there...

Put it on Tineye and see if it locates a bigger version.

I tried that, and it didn't and that version the guy said looks fine

What was the beginning size of the image? I won't work with anything unless its at least 1600 by 1200. My default image size is 3600 by 2700, 300 dpi. I do everything big, even the logos. Scaling down images maintains a better image quality.

The starting size was some weird size... 487px × 268px to be exact

Well, from my experience that size won't scale up without losing a lot of the resolution. Need something bigger. A lot bigger.

Did you see what I did? o.O it looks about Great