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.
On 8 September 2011 10:42, Bev Nicolson lumos60@gmail.com 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.
Start with a new blank image, make it bigger than all three images put together.
Then open the first photo in GIMP and do Edit -> Copy.
Then back to the blank image and do Edit -> Paste Into
You can then scale / move the photo around and eventually anchor it in place. To make things easier later on, instead of anchoring the image to the background, hit the "New Layer" icon and you'll be able move the first image around on the background even after you've pasted the last image as they'll all be seperate layers.
Hope this helps, Simon
On 08 Sep 10:42, 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.
In what way are you trying to join them together? But anyways - what you can do is open the 3 images, then create a new image with the width and height set to the correct values (i.e. add together the widths of the other images, and set the height to the height), copy each image in turn and paste them in to the new image. Job done.
Otherwise, install imagemagick, then simply do: convert +append image1.jpg image2.jpg image3.jpg mynewimage.jpg
Job done.
Cheers, Brett.
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.
For overlap, the ImageMagick program 'composite' can be used, but you would probably end up having to try it several times over to get the desired result. Even more so if one needs to rotate or vertically shift some of the photos to get it right.
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.
Ted.
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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.
On Thu, 8 Sep 2011 11:35:46 +0100, Brett Parker wrote:
For panaromic type situations you might want to look at hugin, which is designed for exactly that
Brett++, I've just been trying out hugin and it's fantastic and does just what I expected. I had a load of holiday photos lying around that I'd planned to sew into various "epic" panoramic shots.
Having done a few now, they're not quite as epic as I'd hoped but pretty good :)
Steve
On 08-Sep-11 16:44:00, Steve Engledow wrote:
On Thu, 8 Sep 2011 11:35:46 +0100, Brett Parker wrote:
For panaromic type situations you might want to look at hugin, which is designed for exactly that
Brett++, I've just been trying out hugin and it's fantastic and does just what I expected. I had a load of holiday photos lying around that I'd planned to sew into various "epic" panoramic shots.
Having done a few now, they're not quite as epic as I'd hoped but pretty good :)
Steve
My thanks too, Brett, for the hugin suggestion. It looks very interesting, and clever. However (see below) it didn't cooperate with me on this occasion!
Meanwhile, I finally managed to suss out the basics of doing it with the GIMP. It's basically a matter of playing with layers, and using the "move layer" button in the main menu (like a cross with arrow-tipped arms) to move the layers around. However, I would also need to play with the rotation and re-scaling options to get things really right.
One thing I found difficult (but I'm probably missing a GIMP trick here) was getting the horizontal positioning right. I had taken a series of 5 photos, with considerable horizontal overlap, to give myself a pool of keypoints to work with. But when one layer was being slid over an adjacent one, it hid the one it was being slid over, so positioning was a bit hit and miss.
If anyone would like to try to do better, my material is at:
http://www.zen89632.zen.co.uk/LtOuse
The 5 photos (in the original large format -- again see below) are (in order from Left to Right):
glfarm01.jpg glfarm02.jpg glfarm03.jpg glfarm04.jpg glfarm05.jpg
and my (somewhat cack-handed) attempt at a panorama using the GIMP is:
panorama.test02.jpg
And, while you're at it, you can enjoy our local wild peacock strutting his stuff in:
peacockF.2010.06.28.avi
I woudl be interested to see what other can achieve, either using the GIMP in a more sophisticated way than I did, or by using hugin.
When I tried hugin, it didn't like the raw material! I could get as far as "Align" in the "Assistant" menu, with 2 or 3 of the primary images (e.g. 01 & 02, or 01 & 03, or 01 & 02 & 03), but id didn't like the full set of 5:
Warning 10 unconnected image groups found:[0], [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7], [8], [9] Please create control points between unconnected images using the Control Points tab.
After adding the points, press the "Align" button again
And even, using only 01 & 02, when the result of "Align" came up OK, when I clicked on "Create panorama" it failed, simply producing a blank result. I would be interested to see how other people manage!
Incidentally, I had used ImageMagick's "display" to create reduced-size versions of those 5, to make it easier to play with lining them up on screen. Each was 576x432 in size. Using these, hugin simply didn't want to know: no result whatever from "Align".
By the way -- since we're on that particular web-page of mine, Brett: You wrote that "montage actually creates a montage of thumbnails, so isn't quite right." I don't think that's true!
Have a look at the photo: reflections.jpg on that same web-page: http://www.zen89632.zen.co.uk/LtOuse
This was taken one very very calm February afternoon.
Later, I played with this. First I reflected it upside down. Then I reflected each of these left-right. I then used montage to combine them, so as to produce the image: symmetries.jpg on that web-page.
Best wishes to all, Ted.
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