[Discuss] stitching images together in The Gimp ??

[David Lee]

Murray Strome wrote:
> p.willis at telus.net wrote:
>> Quoting Larry Gagnon <lggagnon at uniserve.com>:
>>
>>  
>>> I am attempting to stitch together some smaller orthophoto images of 
>>> Victoria into one larger one, using the Gimp. Rather unsuccessfully. 
>>> Methodology so far is to open the first image, increase its Canvas 
>>> Size, open second image, select all, copy and then paste 2nd image 
>>> into first and then move it until it stitches together correctly and 
>>> then choose Layer, Anchor Layer, Save.
>>>
>>>   However, increasing the canvas size again for the 3rd image works 
>>> but doing the same manouever causes the pasted 3rd image to not fill 
>>> the new canvas size, it gets chopped off even though the canvas is 
>>> large enough.
>>>
>>> Any ideas appreciated.
>>>
>>>
>>> ************
>>> Larry Gagnon
>>>
>>>     
>> Some panorama tools. I don't know if they work vertically though.
>>
>> http://bugbear.blackfish.org.uk/~bruno/panorama-tools/
>>
>> Peter
>>   
> You might try by just creating a new Gimp image that is large enough 
> to hold all the images you are trying to stitch, then pasting the 
> individual images into it. You shouldn't need to worry about layers. I 
> have done this type of thing OK, but not exactly what you are doing.
>
> Murray
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If you try to make it too big, you can change the default parameters (64 
mg is default, I think).
There is a really good book I ordered in from Bolens called "Beginning 
Gimp" from Apress. Its by Akkana Peck. It has a small section on 
panoramas. It covers Gimp 2.4 when it comes out.
Another book I've ordered is "Gimp 2 for Photographers" by Klaus 
Goelker, however, I don't think it has been released yet.

David