Photo Combination Tool

[jeanetteski2]

This is probably a stupid question, but I cannot for the life of me remember the name of the tool I've used to combine two pictures into one.  Shipscript recommended this and I've used it many, many times.  I recently had to get a new computer and everything was pretty much wiped and the name of this tool and its bookmark are no longer in my memory.  Anyone know what I"m talking about?  Something like Zippy Stich or something like that.  I'm having one heck of a time trying to get used to Win10 plus the fact that not many of my pictures transferred over.  So I'm having to redo all of those too.   And now my TL program is acting up!!  Woe is me!!  LOL!!  Any help is appreciated.  TIA!! 

Jeanette

[mr_lincoln]

@klassic*kids, @magsmg101  You are both welcome ... hope I got the left & right click things correct, if not you will know soon enough to use the opposite click if I got one or two wrong.  As for Paint's Toolbar layout, my version is Windows 8.1 so if you are using an older or newer version they might appear a little different but functionality is the same.

[mr_lincoln]

@klassic*kids Were you able to combine the pictures in Paint?

[klassic*kids]

Morning Mr. Lincoln!  

I've been crazy busy on this end.  Haven't gotten to tinker around with it yet.  I will as soon as I have a little down time.

Thanks again.  Hope all is well.

- Deana

[mr_lincoln]

@klassic*kids

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@klassic*kids wrote:

Morning Mr. Lincoln!  

I've been crazy busy on this end.  Haven't gotten to tinker around with it yet.  I will as soon as I have a little down time.

Thanks again.  Hope all is well.

- Deana

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No problem, just following up ... if you have any other questions let me know. 

[love*glitter*]

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@18704d wrote:

I use IrfanView

it's free

Lynn

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I 've used IrfanView for years.

How do you combine two pictures? I tried to do it a couple of times, but couldn't figure it out.

[berserkerplanet]

Irfanview has been my goto viewer/editor since near the beginning when Irfan was a university student - 20 years?  🙂

Method 1:

Use the menus: Image > Create Panorama Image

That will take 2 or more image files and stitch them together horizontally or vertically. It does not do true "panorama stitching" where there are algorithms to align edges of images (like if you had snapped shots as you rotated that need to be overlapped and moved)

Method 2:

Have one image open in Irfanview.

Open another image in another Irfanview window, and copy the second image to the clipboard (Ctrl-A then Ctrl-C, or via edit menu).

Go back to the first Irfanview window and extend the canvas Using Shift-V

Select the empty extended area with the mouse and paste the 2nd image that's on the clipboard into it.

The above method has some subtleties. There is a settings option under "Browsing/Editing" to choose how to paste into selection: Fit or stretch. I have it checked to do a "fit to selection". I usually just add a 1000-2000 pixels to the bottom of an image to have a big enough area to make an appropriate selection box to paste the 2nd image into, and then crop the whole thing when done. Something you need to experiment with to get the result you seek.

If you need help with that just ask.

[berserkerplanet]

Here is another pretty powerful free tool from Microsoft for creating panorama images.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/product/computational-photography-applications/image-compos...

Not really the thing to use to combine 2 views of a coffee mug for an eBay listing, but works really well for combining a bunch of camera landscape shots.

Very smart and does a great job of stitching the edges where shots overlap. I used it to get a pretty good 270° shot of a large room a while back.