combining images

[Bill Campbell]

On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 11:37:27PM -0500, Joel Hammer wrote:
>montage works pretty well for this. The only problem is that each individual
>image is the same size as all the other images. I'd like to combine images
>of unequal size, and keep them that way in the final image.
>
>What I am doing is generating images (photos) and want to have a set of
>labels and images (arrows and the like) that can be quickly cut and pasted
>into the photo. It might be most convenient for the user to have the labels
>and arrows in the same image to allow easy cut and pasting, then, when done,
>just crop the photo.

The ImageMagick ``convert'' program can be used to coerce images into some
specified geometry, scaling as necessary.  I use this in a perl script to
create thumbnails of all the images in a directory, creating HTML pages
indexing the images.  Using these pages with Opera, and having opera set to
pull images up with the gimp is a handy way of being able to select from a
library of images for editing.

Bill
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