I just hope i can explain this correctly !

I have a few pictures of our garden, roughly taken from the same vantage
point (not exact as the camera is not bolted down !), the pictures span
across a few years. The centre of one picture does not have the same
centre as another and so on, and they are not all at the same zoom level
(although pretty close).

So, what i'm looking for is a paint program which will take the first
pic and second pic and lay them over the top of eachother so i can skew,
rotate, pull around and zoom in and out to get both pictures having the
same centre point, and corners. Then do this to pictures 2 and 3, then 3
and 4 and so on.

So, in effect, once i have done all this i will have a set of pictures
which when viewing in full screen will proceed to the next pic and they
will all have the same centrepoint and corners, so i can see how the
garden has changed over the years and the transition between them will
look smooth and natural.

Because, as it stands at the moment, i can go from one pic to the next
BUT the transitions are all wrong with each picture having a different
zoom, centrepoint and rotation.

I hope i have explained this so someone knows what i'm on about !

Best Regards,
Andrew

In article <QiMU0EaH2qsZY0rmandyNOSPAM@apple100.NOSPAMfreeser ve.co.uk>,
andyNOSPAM@apple100.NOSPAMfreeserve.co.uk says...

You explained it pretty well, but I am at a lost at a program in
freeware that will do what you want .. maybe there isn't even a
commercial opus (although there ought to be). The only thing I would do
is a manual transition of all photos. You have some inherent problems,
though:

1. The very first problem is to resize one or more pictures to achieve a
generally uniform apparent distance in all pix (same number of pixels
between one fence post and another .. I think you get the point.)

2. Next problem: The photos don't all point to the same central point,
thus pictures will need to be cropped to achieve that same central
point. This may or may not results in say ... one or more pictures not
having enough LEFT or RIGHT scenery (from the chosen center point),
ultimately resulting in all pictures being cropped to a common
denominator (maybe smaller than you wanted) in order to have ALL pix
with the same center point and the same general amount of pixels to the
LEFT and to the RIGHT edges of all the pix.

3. Same problem with vertical measurements

4. Now ... if you can accomplish all the above, you have the project in
hand.

Lord Possum

In article <QiMU0EaH2qsZY0rmandyNOSPAM@apple100.NOSPAMfreeser ve.co.uk>,
andyNOSPAM@apple100.NOSPAMfreeserve.co.uk says...
I had this project a few months ago where I sold a car and wanted to
show people what I bought with the money. It happened to be a nice lawn
mower that was the same color. So what I did was take a picture that I
already had of the car in my driveway and tried to figure out from what
distance and perspective it was taken. I took a picture of the area of
the driveway where the car had been parked without anything there. Then
I took a picture of the same area with the lawn mower where the car had
been. I then opened all of the pics in a viewer program, in this case
Vuepro. This is not a free program(shareware) but I'm positive there is
an alternative title out there that will do the same things, such as
crop by just using the mouse. Anyway, I picked a point out in the upper
left hand corner common to all photos. Vuepro allows you to just pick,
drag and release to get the end photo you want. I re-saved all of the
pics and then resized them to a common size. I then put all of the
photos in Windows Movie Maker and added sound to the car(vroom vroom...
it was a Mazda) then added crickets chirping to the empty driveway,
added text to say that "she" was a great car but she couldn't do this
one thing... "she" couldn't mow the lawn, then the mower appeared on the
screen like an apparition(with lawn mower sounds, of course). This is
achieved by over-lapping the photos just a bit. For a free program that
comes with XP, it's pretty cool. If you need any more help, just post
something. There are many here willing to help out.

Al

"Andy" <andyNOSPAM@apple100.NOSPAMfreeserve.co.uk> wrote in message
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Not freeware I'm afraid but
There is an astronomical piece of trialware called "Blink Comparator" that
you might use.
Scale all your images so that they have the same linear scale

Import them into Blink Comparator (they may need converting to BMPs first
it's a while since I've done it).
Blink Comparator allows you to select the same point on each picture (a
corner on a wall or somesuch) and it will then play through the images as
you require.

Google for trefach blink comparator and click on the Astronomy and Software
links

The closest thing I can think of in the freeware arena that comes
reasonably close to what you want is Photomeister. Basically it can
create a panorama using several photos. Then you can create a slide
show that pans from left to right. They provide an example on their
web site. Just click on the link below and scrol down to the "Venice
Panoramas Slideshow (1.8 MB ZIP)" option and click on the "View
Sample" button. You will have to download a ZIP file that opens to an
EXE file. I trust the file to not have any malware.

http://www.photomeister.com/gallery/index_eng.html

There is another option on the same web that has a 360 degree
panorama:

http://download2.paessler.com/sample...0___detail.htm

If you don't like the program for this purpose, Photomeister is
certainly a fine program to use with a digital camera.

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