Re: Combining images?
On Sunday 22 August 2004 05:16, Stefan O'Rear wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 21, 2004 at 11:06:19PM -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote:
> > I am using a flatbed scanner to grab some magazine articles. There are
> > pages where a picture(s) spans both facing pages. Since I must scan
> > one page at a time, I am looking for a way to combine these images so
> > they are side by side in a new file, i.e. the left side of the second
> > image merged to the right side of the first image. Playing with the
> > Gimp and looking through its manuals have exhausted all the obvious
> > clues. Perhaps the Gimp is the wrong program here as what I want to do
> > seems to be too basic for its authors or I am too dumb.
>
> Try copy and paste. However you will need to rotate the images first so
> they line up. You can use the Transform tool to do that.
Yes, this is the way I usually do it in gimp. Take image A, image -> canvas
size -> (unlink x and y) -> expand the canvas enough to fit image B -> layer
to image size (if you haven't found this yet you get there by: either
right-click layer in layers dialogue or right-click the image and use the
"layer" context menu) -> go to image B and select all (or as much as you
need) -> copy (have to use ctl-c as ctl-insert doesn't work in gimp -- or
edit menu, of course) -> back to image A -> paste -> move the pasted image to
required location and anchor (or new layer if you don't want to merge them
finally yet because one needs rotating slightly to match up).
--
richard
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