Here's the deal: I'd like to take a small number of scanned images that constitute parts of a poster (which is too large for the scanning bed), then have them reconstituted into a full poster. I have software like Quickstich, and that works great for photos. However, it assumes you are pivoting from a fixed point when reconstructing the image. Here, there is no fixed pivot point, so the result Quickstich gives is wrong--bent at the stitch points.

Is there software that will allow me to do this easily? I have Photoshop, Photo Draw 2000, PhotoDeluxe, Photo Soap, Photo this, Photo that, Photo the other thing :-)

Note: Yes, I know I can easily take a picture with a digicam, and that's what I normally do with my megapixal camera. But for a few cases I need more detailed resolution than I can get that way.

Thanks

-- Kwad Guy (quadguy1@yahoo.com), November 24, 1999

Answers

I just got Ulead PhotoImpact 5 - I saw this about stitching (haven't tried it though) but it sounds easier than another program I tried. Here is a quote from Ulead's help:

Stitch with: Select the image to append to the current one. Overlap area transparency Makes the image selected in the Select with option transparent where it overlaps. This may be useful for helping you find the best place to stitch. Set a higher value to allow more of the current image to show through areas covered by the selected image. Manually Allows you to stitch images based upon reference points you place in each image. In general, selecting Auto fine-tune produces best results.

Note: You may also drag the selected image to its desired location. Auto stitch Select to have PhotoImpact determine the best stitch possible. (PhotoImpact compares images finding the areas of greatest similarity and stitches along those edges.) Set an overlap range to define the general region in the selected image where the original can be joined. Set the horizontal or vertical tolerance to determine how far PhotoImpact can shift the image to find the best match.

Test: Click to preview the results in the working area before accepting.

-- Eileen Morrisot (we108918@nassaulibrary.org), November 24, 1999.

(That made a little more sense with the bold headings - think you will get the idea though.) Important note--- it (PhotoImpact stitching) only works with RGB true color images or grayscale

-- Eileen Morrisot (we108918@nassaulibrary.org), November 24, 1999.

Micrografix picture publisher version 8 (latest version) has this feature and it was in version 7 (at least) also.

You open two or more photos in seperate windows at the same time.

You select two points manually on one photo -- preferably as far apart as possible -- and they must be in the overlap area so the same objects at those points are visible on the other photo. For example if you have pictures of a long wide house, you would choose a certain corner of one brick in the chimney, and a certain petal of a flower on the ground.

Then you go to the other photo (in the other window) and clcik on the corresponding same points in that photo. Then the program stretches and rotates one photo until the two points are exactly the same distance apart and at the same angle, and then it combines them together into one photo.

If you have more than two photos, you keep doing this until all are combined. -bruce

-- bruce komusin (bkomusin@bigfoot.com), November 25, 1999.

I've heard all the best about QuickStitch www.enroute.com

-- Zsolt Magyar (zmagyar@ri.tel.hr), January 07, 2000.