I've been perusing the shareware sites looking for a good program that
can easily stitch separate picture files together and I can't find
one. I'm not using photographs, but scans from my scanner of
something larger than the glass can handle. I want to recreate the
larger picture in a JPG file. Some of the programs I tried complained
that the picture sizes are not identicle. Well, based on cropping,
probably not - but they are all the same DPI for sure.
On Wed, 06 Feb 2008 09:11:41 -0500, in rec.photo.digital Bob
<xxx@xxx.com> wrote:
>I've been perusing the shareware sites looking for a good program that
>can easily stitch separate picture files together and I can't find
>one. I'm not using photographs, but scans from my scanner of
>something larger than the glass can handle. I want to recreate the
>larger picture in a JPG file. Some of the programs I tried complained
>that the picture sizes are not identicle. Well, based on cropping,
>probably not - but they are all the same DPI for sure.
>
>Can anyone recommend a program that does this?
On Wed, 06 Feb 2008 09:11:41 -0500, Bob <xxx@xxx.com> wrote in
<gqfjq3hlkinhl10em4kgvp8l0e3kimlrp7@4ax.com>:
>I've been perusing the shareware sites looking for a good program that
>can easily stitch separate picture files together and I can't find
>one. I'm not using photographs, but scans from my scanner of
>something larger than the glass can handle. I want to recreate the
>larger picture in a JPG file. Some of the programs I tried complained
>that the picture sizes are not identicle. Well, based on cropping,
>probably not - but they are all the same DPI for sure.
>
>Can anyone recommend a program that does this?
In addition to AutoStitch, give hugin <http://hugin.sourceforge.net/> a
look. My easy Windows installers for hugin can be downloaded from
<http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=7814de75d2a4340991b20cc0d07ba4d23ed6fdb5 c6ab3d83>.
--
Best regards,
John Navas
Panasonic DMC-FZ8 (and several others)
On Wed, 06 Feb 2008 10:22:36 -0500, me@mine.net wrote:
>On Wed, 06 Feb 2008 09:11:41 -0500, in rec.photo.digital Bob
><xxx@xxx.com> wrote:
>
>>I've been perusing the shareware sites looking for a good program that
>>can easily stitch separate picture files together and I can't find
>>one. I'm not using photographs, but scans from my scanner of
>>something larger than the glass can handle. I want to recreate the
>>larger picture in a JPG file. Some of the programs I tried complained
>>that the picture sizes are not identicle. Well, based on cropping,
>>probably not - but they are all the same DPI for sure.
>>
>>Can anyone recommend a program that does this?
>
>Have you tried AutoStitch?
>http://www.autostitch.net
Bob wrote:
> I've been perusing the shareware sites looking for a good program that
> can easily stitch separate picture files together and I can't find
> one. I'm not using photographs, but scans from my scanner of
> something larger than the glass can handle. I want to recreate the
> larger picture in a JPG file. Some of the programs I tried complained
> that the picture sizes are not identicle. Well, based on cropping,
> probably not - but they are all the same DPI for sure.
>
> Can anyone recommend a program that does this?
>
> Thanks.
> Bob
Search for 'autostitch'. Free, very powerful, and quite fast.
There is a commercial version that will even search through your photos
looking for sets of images that can be stitched together. Amazing software.
>>
>> Can anyone recommend a program that does this?
>
> In addition to AutoStitch, give hugin <http://hugin.sourceforge.net/> a
> look. My easy Windows installers for hugin can be downloaded from
> <http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=7814de75d2a4340991b20cc0d07ba4d23ed6fdb5 c6ab3d83>.
>
I tried both. Autostitch did not work well for me.
Hugin does. It gives really great results. But it, at least for my needs,
it needs really vast amounts of memory, is slow, and needs tending.
That is, it sometimes fails to automatically match up images
(and its easy to see why ... by hand can be hard for these subjects.)
But the versatility and quality are sure there. It also outputs
16 bit TIFFS is requested to which is great for me.
On Wed, 06 Feb 2008 13:40:11 -0600, user@domain.invalid wrote in
<fod2gt$4vc$1@news.acm.uiuc.edu>:
>John Navas wrote:
>
>>> Can anyone recommend a program that does this?
>>
>> In addition to AutoStitch, give hugin <http://hugin.sourceforge.net/> a
>> look. My easy Windows installers for hugin can be downloaded from
>> <http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=7814de75d2a4340991b20cc0d07ba4d23ed6fdb5 c6ab3d83>.
>
>I tried both. Autostitch did not work well for me.
>
>Hugin does. It gives really great results. But it, at least for my needs,
>it needs really vast amounts of memory, is slow, and needs tending.
>That is, it sometimes fails to automatically match up images
>(and its easy to see why ... by hand can be hard for these subjects.)
>But the versatility and quality are sure there. It also outputs
>16 bit TIFFS is requested to which is great for me.
Glad it worked for you. Thanks for the report.
--
Best regards,
John Navas
Panasonic DMC-FZ8 (and several others)
On Wed, 06 Feb 2008 10:22:36 -0500, me@mine.net wrote:
>On Wed, 06 Feb 2008 09:11:41 -0500, in rec.photo.digital Bob wrote:
>
>>I've been perusing the shareware sites looking for a good program that
>>can easily stitch separate picture files together and I can't find
>>one. I'm not using photographs, but scans from my scanner of
>>something larger than the glass can handle. I want to recreate the
>>larger picture in a JPG file. Some of the programs I tried complained
>>that the picture sizes are not identicle. Well, based on cropping,
>>probably not - but they are all the same DPI for sure.
>>
>>Can anyone recommend a program that does this?
>
>Have you tried AutoStitch?
>http://www.autostitch.net
I just tried it for the very thing that Bob wants to do. I also would like
to do the same, and not have to buy an 11 x 17" scanner, or pay $7 each at
Staples.
It did not work well. My material was a page from an old The Saturday
Evening Post. It added curvature to each half before stitching them. It is
possible there is some Options setting that I don't understand that will
leave them flat and simply align and stitch.
Don <www.donwiss.com/pictures/> (e-mail link at page bottoms).
On Wed, 06 Feb 2008 15:09:19 -0500, Don Wiss <donwiss@no_spam.com> wrote
in <fm4kq3ltrqrpet02ngadmkobqnm289q725@4ax.com>:
>On Wed, 06 Feb 2008 10:22:36 -0500, me@mine.net wrote:
>
>>On Wed, 06 Feb 2008 09:11:41 -0500, in rec.photo.digital Bob wrote:
>>
>>>I've been perusing the shareware sites looking for a good program that
>>>can easily stitch separate picture files together and I can't find
>>>one. I'm not using photographs, but scans from my scanner of
>>>something larger than the glass can handle. I want to recreate the
>>>larger picture in a JPG file. Some of the programs I tried complained
>>>that the picture sizes are not identicle. Well, based on cropping,
>>>probably not - but they are all the same DPI for sure.
>>>
>>>Can anyone recommend a program that does this?
>>
>>Have you tried AutoStitch?
>>http://www.autostitch.net
>
>I just tried it for the very thing that Bob wants to do. I also would like
>to do the same, and not have to buy an 11 x 17" scanner, or pay $7 each at
>Staples.
>
>It did not work well. My material was a page from an old The Saturday
>Evening Post. It added curvature to each half before stitching them. It is
>possible there is some Options setting that I don't understand that will
>leave them flat and simply align and stitch.
The AutoStitch demo only supports spherical projection, whereas it
sounds like you want rectilinear stitching, which is only in the
non-free version.
--
Best regards,
John Navas
Panasonic DMC-FZ8 (and several others)
> I've been perusing the shareware sites looking for a good program that
> can easily stitch separate picture files together and I can't find
> one. I'm not using photographs, but scans from my scanner of
> something larger than the glass can handle. I want to recreate the
> larger picture in a JPG file. Some of the programs I tried complained
> that the picture sizes are not identicle. Well, based on cropping,
> probably not - but they are all the same DPI for sure.
>
> Can anyone recommend a program that does this?
>
> Thanks.
> Bob
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