Software for joining two pictures together

[Rommelbommel]

I second Photoshop Elements.

Installing millions of half-baked Shareware programs for single image editing functions will only trash your system.

[luddite]

Originally Posted by damp-patch

Photoscape is a free download that has quite a lot of decent features including stitching.

I have Photoscape. I see "combine in the menu. Can you give a quick lesson on how to do that ? or tell me where to find how to do that ?

[befuddled]

Corel Paint Shop Pro is not very expensive. You can download a 30 day trial at cnet here: http://download.cnet.com/Corel-Paint...-10727962.html, or you can buy it for $79. The version on Cnet site is version X2. The latest version is X4 and goes for about $120. It is a lot cheaper than photoshop and not as powerful, but it is decent program that should serve well to stitch images together. I hope this is of some help to you.

[Jism Jim]

Originally Posted by ConservativeIdiot

I'm looking for software that I can use to join pictures. I want to join pictures of my scans into one picture. That's all I need.

Do you want to:

1: combine 2 complete pictures into one, where it doesn't matter that there is a seam between the two?
2: join 2 halves of one picture together as if you scanned one picture at once?

1: use the panorama option of Irfanview. It's very simple and every Windows user should have Irfanview anyway.
2: This is called 'stitching', where you have to point out 2 identical points on both pics. Not every software can do it. I use Micrografx Picture Publisher. It's old, but quite good. Check my scans. There must me freeware that can do it. Gimp should be able to do it, but I never needed to try.

[LGJAmster]

I found Paint.net to be very useful http://www.getpaint.net/

[deepsepia]

Originally Posted by Jism Jim

Do you want to:

1: combine 2 complete pictures into one, where it doesn't matter that there is a seam between the two?
2: join 2 halves of one picture together as if you scanned one picture at once?

1: use the panorama option of Irfanview. It's very simple and every Windows user should have Irfanview anyway.
2: This is called 'stitching', where you have to point out 2 identical points on both pics. Not every software can do it. I use Micrografx Picture Publisher. It's old, but quite good. Check my scans. There must me freeware that can do it. Gimp should be able to do it, but I never needed to try.

Very good advice from Jism Jim (only other person I've heard using Picture Publisher this decade!)

Irfanview is, as he says, essential for a Windows user. GIMP is very powerful, but takes forever to load -- IrfanView is a very small program that loads instantly. The "panorama" feature is the easiest "combine image" function out there . . . pick the files, set a few preferences. Highly recommended