On 08 Sep 11:10, Ted Harding wrote:
On 08-Sep-11 09:42:14, Bev Nicolson wrote:
I half expect someone to say how easy this is but I'm trying to join three photos together to form one jpg file. Easy to do in OO. In GIMP, I have no idea and the tutorial page doesn't seem to say anything on the topic. Help.
Bev.
Bev, If it is simply a case of placing images side-by-side to form one single image (without trying to arrange overlap or alignment or rotation) then I would use (and often have used) the ImageMagick program 'montage'. See 'man montage' for the many options.
montage actually creates a montage of thumbnails, so isn't quite right, convert has options +append and -append which go either left to right or top to bottom respectively.
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However, if it is a matter of getting them all onto one single frame and then manipulating them (shift, rotate, etc.) until it all looks right, then I think one has to get into the GIMP. As it happens, I am facing this problem myself right now (a panoramic set of photos which I want to turn into a single panorama), and like you I have not managed to suss out how to get the GIMP to cooperate with me!
So I'll be very interested in what other have to say.
For panaromic type situations you might want to look at hugin, which is designed for exactly that - remember, the gimp is just an image editor, it doesn't neccessarily have the tools for everything in the world to do with images.
Cheers, Brett.