{"id":23415,"date":"2020-02-20T21:03:39","date_gmt":"2020-02-20T20:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurnsearch.wordpress.com\/?p=23415"},"modified":"2020-02-20T21:03:39","modified_gmt":"2020-02-20T20:03:39","slug":"image-composite-editor-2-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2020\/02\/20\/image-composite-editor-2-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Image Composite Editor 2.0"},"content":{"rendered":"

Microsoft’s Image Composite Editor 2.0<\/a> is free photo stitching software for desktop PCs. (Also backed up at Archive.org<\/a>). Although it bills itself as yet another panorama-stitching software, if can also stitch hand-held ’tiled’ sequences of images, provided there is overlap. Such as multiple images of a large old poster. The software is the product of Microsoft’s Photosynth years, and both very fast and accurate.<\/p>\n

As a test I started with three images from eBay, non-scanned and made with a hand-held camera…<\/p>\n

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After import the files were automatically arranged by file-name numbering: 1, 2, 3. Then by using the Structured | Layout<\/strong> section it was easy enough to get the three images into a column… <\/p>\n

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Automatic can be used, but the best results come from jiggling the Structured | Overlap<\/strong> sliders until you have an approximately good fit. It seems the fit doesn’t have to be perfect.<\/p>\n

From there you go to the next step, Stitch<\/strong>, and if it’s not done right you go back and adjust the Overlap sliders again. It only took me two tries to get a perfect stitch. <\/p>\n

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Cropping and export is then very straightforward. As you can see there’s a slight skew at the top and bottom, but further finessing of the Overlap sliders might fix that.<\/p>\n

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A very nice bit of free software, and so much easier and faster than other possible options. One could, theoretically, use this with screenshots of a public-domain picture trapped inside a tiled viewer, quickly re-combining these into a large whole image.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Microsoft’s Image Composite Editor 2.0 is free photo stitching software for desktop PCs. (Also backed up at Archive.org). Although it …<\/p>\n

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