Tutorial on stitching mult-part scans together

[ChadTower]

I poked around today looking for one and came across this.  Perfect for sideart or a playfield.

[patrickl]

Why doesn't he simply use the Photoshop stitching tool? At the very least create the layers with it.

[Level42]

Zorg has a really nice tutorial about all this somewhere, but it's in French

[mybrainhurtz]

here it is--> http://www.gamoover.net/index.php?ind=reviews&op=entry_view&iden=26

[ChadTower]

Zorg has a really nice tutorial about all this somewhere, but it's in French

Doesn't bother me.  I'll see if I can find it.

[zorg]

Unfortunatly the tuto is not ready and not on line. (24 hour days are tooo short  )


anyway you can check:

http://www.mameworld.info/ubbthreads/showthreaded.php?Cat=&Board=artwork&Number=128625&Forum=artwork&Words=stitch&Match=Entire%20Phrase&Searchpage=0&Limit=25&Old=allposts&Main=128620&Search=true#Post128625

http://hugin.sourceforge.net/tutorials/scans/en.shtml


enjoy

[lcddream]

Using the "difference" blending mode in photoshop really helps in lining two separate images up properly.

[ChadTower]

Using the "difference" blending mode in photoshop really helps in lining two separate images up properly.

Is that all that different from manually managing opacity as you line layers up?  I am not familiar with that action in Photoshop.

[lcddream]

when you use difference on two overlapping layers anything that is not the same(different) will show up as a mix of white and black shapes, when it is perfectly lined up the area overlap will be a black stripe.

not too much different from opacity, might make it easier to get it exact though, or make it easier to spot incongruities in the two scans...

edit: found an example

http://www.graphics.com/modules.php?name=Sections&op=viewarticle&artid=377

[ChadTower]

Oh nice.  The rotating bit is the part I fear most - obviously you don't want to rotate many times.

[lcddream]

if you are scanning then i imagine rotating wouldn't be too much of a factor, and it could just be rescanned.

[ChadTower]

if you are scanning then i imagine rotating wouldn't be too much of a factor, and it could just be rescanned.

Yeah.  I figure the odds of getting every image of a full playfield lined up perfectly are pretty low.  There will end up being a little bit of rotation no matter what.