From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1SURz6-0004J8-Bv for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 16 May 2012 00:20:56 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4A44DE0B5F; Wed, 16 May 2012 00:20:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-1.ca.inter.net (mail-1.ca.inter.net [208.85.220.69]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49986E0A98 for ; Wed, 16 May 2012 00:19:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (offload-3.ca.inter.net [208.85.220.70]) by mail-1.ca.inter.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id F24462EA152 for ; Tue, 15 May 2012 20:19:12 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail-1.ca.inter.net ([208.85.220.69]) by localhost (offload-3.ca.inter.net [208.85.220.70]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id zwJC7kA0DPwj for ; Tue, 15 May 2012 20:19:12 -0400 (EDT) Received: from ca.inter.net (unknown [74.205.213.253]) by mail-1.ca.inter.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 48FD12EA14E for ; Tue, 15 May 2012 20:19:11 -0400 (EDT) Received: by ca.inter.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Tue, 15 May 2012 20:19:11 -0400 Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 20:19:11 -0400 From: Philip Webb To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] merging or fitting images together Message-ID: <20120516001911.GB2977@ca.inter.net> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <20120510205232.GH3236@ca.inter.net> <4FAC389C.5020009@gmail.com> <20120511193120.GA2978@ca.inter.net> <4FADBC1B.3080004@gmail.com> <20120512132257.GA2968@ca.inter.net> <20120515025033.GB2969@ca.inter.net> <20120515202954.69c68951@bluewin.ch> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20120515202954.69c68951@bluewin.ch> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Archives-Salt: ded0fb8d-919b-468a-a2ad-028f235b0c59 X-Archives-Hash: b62eb4d6e9683498016e6a29012e18ec 120515 Urs Schutz wrote: > I just tried with fotoxx. I hadn't heard of that one : there are so many pkgs in media/gfx that it's difficult to be sure I've checked all photo editors. > This is a semi-manual process, but I liked the resulting image. It c~b any more manual than Imagemagick (smile). > The joint is less visible than on brum-2.jpg. That wb useful : no doubt, I could adjust one of them with Imagemagick, but eventually there wb >= 100 similar merges to do, so some degree of automation wb very helpful. > It was easy to do an "unbend" after merging > and therefore the clock and the face on the image borders stay in the image. Not a problem with Imagemagick. > This was my first try to do a panorama in fotoxx > and it took me less than 5 minutes, much faster than with hugin. > If you like I send you the image to your private mail. Please do & thanks for this info. Does anyone else have suggestions re pkgs or methods ? -- it does look as if this rather simple task is fairly challenging, so others may benefit if it's on record here. I have emerged Gimp & will look at what it can do soon : it has 'layers', which look like what is needed. -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT `-O----------O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca