Find's Treasure Forums
Welcome to Find's Treasure Forums, Guests!
You are viewing this forums as a guest which limits you to read only status.
Only registered members may post stories, questions, classifieds, reply to other posts, contact other members using built in messaging and use many other features found on these forums.
Why not register and join us today? It's free! (We don't share your email addresses with anyone.) We keep email addresses of our users to protect them and others from bad people posting things they shouldn't.
Click here to register!
Need Support Help?
Cannot log in?, click here to have new password emailed to you
Changed email? Forgot to update your account with new email address? Need assistance with something else?, click here to go to Find's Support Form and fill out the form.
How can I superimpose on image over another without PS ?
- Thread starter Cal_Cobra
- Start date
) way to do this (I don't have photoshop) ?I don't have an answer as I'm new to all this stuff and don't know what I'm doing (may be a good thing), but just wanted to say that I didn't want the Photoshop because I probably wouldn't know what to do with it. So I downloaded a couple free ones, GIMP2 and Irfan View, and I still don't know what to do with it
stevecoleccs
New member
Print out a map. Place the coins on the map to be the "background" & re-photgraph the coins laying on top of the map.
Ed in SoDak
Member
I've done a lot of this exact same thing you're trying to do.
Before affordable scanners, I made scaled transparencies and did overlays. I have a darkroom, but you could do this on a photocopier, using the reduction/enlargement settings to make the scales agree. I also used overhead projectors and slide projectors to project my transparencies onto a large map taped to the wall. That way, you can scale on the fly by moving the projector closer or farther away.
At home, you could print them on the same sheet of paper, or one of them on transparency sheets and use a light table to light them from behind. A 35mm with double-exposure capability could be another method that might work. Or you could shoot two separate slides and sandwich them in a single slide frame. I think my Nikon D200 allows multiple exposures on the same image, but I've never played with it.
A cartography buff would hand-draw the details.
Still, the easiest and most flexible way is Photoshop or a clone that allows layers with adjustable transparency. You can scale till it's just right and adjust how much one image overlays the other or even change the order of which layer is on top. Then "freeze" the result as a new file, keeping the originals intact.
Modern digital camcorders have fade and dissolve options that might yield some individual frames that merge your two maps.
There's so many ways to achive similar results, I probably left a few out!
Good luck, the results can be very revealing!
-Ed
Before affordable scanners, I made scaled transparencies and did overlays. I have a darkroom, but you could do this on a photocopier, using the reduction/enlargement settings to make the scales agree. I also used overhead projectors and slide projectors to project my transparencies onto a large map taped to the wall. That way, you can scale on the fly by moving the projector closer or farther away.
At home, you could print them on the same sheet of paper, or one of them on transparency sheets and use a light table to light them from behind. A 35mm with double-exposure capability could be another method that might work. Or you could shoot two separate slides and sandwich them in a single slide frame. I think my Nikon D200 allows multiple exposures on the same image, but I've never played with it.
A cartography buff would hand-draw the details.
Still, the easiest and most flexible way is Photoshop or a clone that allows layers with adjustable transparency. You can scale till it's just right and adjust how much one image overlays the other or even change the order of which layer is on top. Then "freeze" the result as a new file, keeping the originals intact.
Modern digital camcorders have fade and dissolve options that might yield some individual frames that merge your two maps.
There's so many ways to achive similar results, I probably left a few out!
Good luck, the results can be very revealing!
-Ed
Ed thanks for the reply. I used to be a hard core Corel Photo user, but it's been a few years. I know PS is the defacto standard, but it's too darn $$ for just messing around. I'll see if I can pick up the latest Corel software, which even uses PS plug-ins, and see if I can get this to work. I have a couple of ideas I'd like to try 
Thanks,
Brian
Thanks,
Brian
Sodbuster27
Member
And it's MUCH less expensive than the full-fledged PhotoShop CS3/4
Sodbuster
Sodbuster
Sodbuster27
Member
Cal_Cobra said:
You could also try Picassa. They have a tool that will allow you to make a collage of your photos. You could select only 2 photos and superimpose them one on the other. You won't be able to work with any opacity (causing one to fade to the other) but you can at least layer them. And it's free.
Sodbuster