A photo Collage

WexfordMusings

Hi all,

I've seen some really great photo collages, done with people printing out their pics and sticking them together. I wud love to give it a try but on the computer. Is there a good program out there (cheap, free or sharware) that would allow me to try it out! I onlt have the standard Kodak package and its not very good to use to do anything other than printing your pics - I suppose a symptom of making everything as simple as possible for the simple user....

thanks

John

Kali

Free software-wise you probably can't beat GIMP... it'll do layers with varying levels of opacity.

For an extremely basic program though try Picassa, it'll do simple collages with multiple images (with equal opacity).

Borderfox

fotofusion, not cheap but I would rate it very highly. If you like send me your shots and I will make one for you?

Borderfox

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WexfordMusings

Go raibh maith agaibh, a chairde. I'll have a look at GIMP and Picasso and get back and let ye all know how i get on.

John

WexfordMusings

I looked at Picasa and couldnt find what I was looking for. Heres an idea of what i am trying to do. Taking a group of pics of the same subject and sticking them together. i just did this in paint but it looses the quality of each pic. any ideas?

Each pic is about 1 mb in size, about 30 pics altogether. I want to retain the quality of pic to have it professionally printed on a banner, about 6 foot by 2 foot. I already just printed oput each pic on my printer in A4 size and it looks good...

Borderfox

You can do it in the program I have, take off the border and the drop shadow and you can tilt and turn them whichever way you want. Last on I did was a1 and you could cut each picture out it was that clear.

WexfordMusings

Thanks for the offer borderfox. I am as we speak downloading a trial version of it to see. Will let you kow how i get on.

John

rymus

we like that middle picture... oh yes we certainly do!

PaulieC

rymus wrote:

we like that middle picture... oh yes we certainly do!

middle top ?;)

rymus

middle bottom of course..

Calina

Pink? You like the colour pink?

rymus

who doesnt like a bit of pink now and then?

Marcus

WexfordMusings wrote:

I looked at Picasa and couldnt find what I was looking for. Heres an idea of what i am trying to do. Taking a group of pics of the same subject and sticking them together. i just did this in paint but it looses the quality of each pic. any ideas?

Each pic is about 1 mb in size, about 30 pics altogether. I want to retain the quality of pic to have it professionally printed on a banner, about 6 foot by 2 foot. I already just printed oput each pic on my printer in A4 size and it looks good...

Not sure if this is what you are looking for: http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~mbrown/autostitch/autostitch.html

Calina

I can offer some pink

don't know if it's your type of pink.

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hmmm OP, there's a Canon utility called PhotoStitch which does what you want. What kind of a camera have you got?

rymus

close...

bigeoino

Calina wrote:

I can offer some pink

don't know if it's your type of pink.

Less kite and more kite puller me thinks...:)

ian_m

Autostitch

Its free and easy to use

http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~mbrown/autostitch/autostitch.html

jaqian

Maybe this kind of pink:

rymus

naw.. thats just mindless vandalism

WexfordMusings

Thanks ian, autostitch looks nice, will check it out.

WexfordMusings

Wow, Autostitch is amazing, how does that bloody program even work, recognise colours in each pic, compare and join all the bits up and then blend/shade/adjust exposure in each picture. If you were to sit down in post production and try to do all this it would take ages.

Thumbs up

Hugh_C

rymus wrote:

naw.. thats just mindless vandalism

This is more your style perhaps?

rymus

god no.. I'd hate to ruin my reputation as a "misogynistic cnut"