2023 image stitching software recommendation

[jughead77]

+ This was originally in the How to stitch partial scans thread
http://vintage-erotica-forum.com/t25...ial-scans.html

Looks like many of the tips here are a few years old or more. Looking for a relatively simple stitching software program. The lame attempt was made with Arc Soft that came with an Epson scanner and that took 4-5 attempts.

[Jazz67]

be interested if anyone has tried the new Photoshop Generative Fill to stitch pics together yet?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZS4dVabt6Q

[deepsepia]

Originally Posted by Jazz67

be interested if anyone has tried the new Photoshop Generative Fill to stitch pics together yet?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZS4dVabt6Q

It works well, but it is allergic to even the suggestion of NSFW. I've had it throw "content moderation" for the most G rated of topics, so its not going to be much use for erotica, or even garden variety fashion or candids. People in bathing suits for example.

There are work arounds.

Photoshop workaround: do a content aware fill (which is done locally, not moderated) to fill any skin with textures in the scene itself, eg "cover up" . . . then use this clean version to do the Generative Fill, and then use the edited seam back in the original NSFW version. It can work, but its a pain

Easier:

use inpainting in Stable Diffusion, either on a web application like Leonardo's Canvas. Leonardo content moderates normally generated images reasonably strictly -- though not as much so as Adobe -- but on the in painting Canvas tab its much more relaxed.

Originally Posted by jughead77

Looks like many of the tips here are a few years old or more. Looking for a relatively simple stitching software program. The lame attempt was made with Arc Soft that came with an Epson scanner and that took 4-5 attempts.

The Spot Healing Brush in Photoshop, and similar inpainting tools in Affinity and Pixelmator both are pretty good for a seam, but one that's as intrusive as this one pictured is more than a point and click thing, it'll take some work and a bunch of steps to fix

Basically you've got a real misalignment here, and the repair isn't going to be automatic; the problem is a scan that doesn't line up even remotely . . . if you can do, getting a better scan would help a lot.

[Jazz67]

Just a reminder that this is a tutorial thread, not a discussion, so let's focus on practical tips & methods for stitching pics please.

If we want a discussion thread for useful AI image tools, then feel free to start one in the general Help section
http://vintage-erotica-forum.com/f10-help-section.html

There's already a very informative thread for AI image creation from scratch here, so we don't need another one in Help
http://vintage-erotica-forum.com/sho...d.php?t=433440