combining images

[Joel Hammer]

As a batch. 

I just got an inspiration.

I am going to try  this:
1. Make a black image as the background, big enuf for both the other images.
2. Combine the back image with the two images as sequential commands.

I'll let you know how it works.

Joel






snpOn Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 02:01:54PM -0600, C M Reinehr wrote:
> Are you trying to do this as a batch process, or manually? If your answer 
> is manually, then GIMP probably is the quickest & easiest way.
> 
> cmr
> 
> Joel Hammer wrote:
> 
> > I am trying to use combine to just join together two images of similar
> > width but different length. I want the resulting image to be a simple
> > combination of the two, top to bottom, like so:
> > 
> >    -------
> >   | Image1|
> >   |       |
> >    -------
> > and
> >    -------
> >   | Image2|
> >   |       |
> >   |       |
> >    -------
> > The desired result is :
> > 
> >    -------
> >   | Image1|
> >   |       |
> >   | Image2|
> >   |       |
> >   |       |
> >    -------
> > 
> > 
> > Combine seems to work by overlying the second image on the first ( or
> > vice versa).  If you specify an offset, you wind up with image two getting
> > truncated. That is to say, the size of the canvas is the size of image1.
> > 
> > I could solve my problem if I could figure out how to increase the canvas
> > size of image one to accommodate image 2.
> > 
> > 
> > Any insight appreciated,
> > 
> > Joel
> 
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