I have two jpg aerial photos that I want to splice together, they overlap but are different resolutions I think..
What is the best way to go about it?
I don’t have photoshop or similar.

Peak Warming Man said:

I have two jpg aerial photos that I want to splice together, they overlap but are different resolutions I think..
What is the best way to go about it?
I don’t have photoshop or similar.

Gimp is a freeware photo tool that does quite a lot of stuff that Photoshop does, may help.

Peak Warming Man said:

I have two jpg aerial photos that I want to splice together, they overlap but are different resolutions I think..
What is the best way to go about it?
I don’t have photoshop or similar.

As jjjust moi said, you can try gimp. It’s interactive, and you can make all sorts of adjustments as you go. You can get it from www.gimp.org

Alternatively, you could try Image Magick, which provides tools for doing all sorts of image manipulation from the command line or scripts (batch files.)

I have a program called Hugin that stitches together panoramas.

hugin

I opened them in Gimp but there was no quick way to merge them.
The manual had a Chapter titled Combining Images which just described what Layers were about and did not even give a hint of how to combine images.
I’ll try and do it in AutoCAD, I’ll just import them, scale them up to be equal and overlay, see how that goes.

Peak Warming Man said:

I opened them in Gimp but there was no quick way to merge them.
The manual had a Chapter titled Combining Images which just described what Layers were about and did not even give a hint of how to combine images.
I’ll try and do it in AutoCAD, I’ll just import them, scale them up to be equal and overlay, see how that goes.

While I’m not overly familiar with gimp, can’t you resize and crop in there?

you can resize in the generic windows editing ‘suite’… it’s a fairly basic function should be available in almost any program…

as for splicing.. I have never done it… I think there was an option to in the Nikon standard program… but I never explored it… can you not open up a file in paint and double the frame and import photos (once you have sized them right)?

Arts said:

you can resize in the generic windows editing ‘suite’… it’s a fairly basic function should be available in almost any program…

as for splicing.. I have never done it… I think there was an option to in the Nikon standard program… but I never explored it… can you not open up a file in paint and double the frame and import photos (once you have sized them right)?

Where is pommiejohn when you really need him?

Thanks people, got it sorted now.

Autocad work?

Print them out and stitch them together?

Arts said:

Autocad work?

Yeah, but there is no new Image file, there is a drawing file with the two images in it scaled and aligned and merged and that’s all I want, all I really want.

Peak Warming Man said:

Arts said:

Autocad work?

Yeah, but there is no new Image file, there is a drawing file with the two images in it scaled and aligned and merged and that’s all I want, all I really want.

cool.. glad we could help.

Irfan View is worth a look. It has a “create panorama image” function (and is free).

jjjust moi said:

Where is pommiejohn when you really need him?

At work :)

My answer to this question ( had it not been sorted already) would be send them to me and I’ll send them back a few minutes later :)

pommiejohn said:

At work :)

My answer to this question ( had it not been sorted already) would be send them to me and I’ll send them back a few minutes later :)

Me too. I only know how to do things like that in Photoshop.

pommiejohn said:

jjjust moi said:

Where is pommiejohn when you really need him?

At work :)

My answer to this question ( had it not been sorted already) would be send them to me and I’ll send them back a few minutes later :)

I’ll get you next time PJ.

Peak Warming Man said:

pommiejohn said:

jjjust moi said:

Where is pommiejohn when you really need him?

At work :)

My answer to this question ( had it not been sorted already) would be send them to me and I’ll send them back a few minutes later :)

I’ll get you next time PJ.

No probs. Stuff like that is quite easy if you have the right tools. Just ask.

please

You can use Paint to do this. You just need to work out the scale factor between the two images and make a suitable adjustment to one, then you can merge them by cutting them both along the same line and joining them together with a copy/paste operation. Much like you did in Autocad.

yes, i’ve done this in paint before, it takes a while though