How to Join Images Together?

[JackOlson]

Greetings, I just bought PSP19 (right before the sales started! ha) and I am new here.
The main reason I bought it, is that I like to paint in acrylics, and some of my paintings are too large for my scanner, so I have to scan two or more pieces and somehow join them together.
I've been watching some great tutorials and webinars, but it doesn't seem to address the best way to merge two images together.
It needs to be as perfect a join as possible.

I tried searching for "join image" and "merge image" here, but too much came up.
Can someone point me to an existing thread or the simplest steps to make this as seamless as possible?

thanks in advance,
Jack (aka "the new guy")

[bruce1951]

Not something I can give you a step by step tutorial on but here's how I would approach it.

Calculate how large you want your final image. Create a new blank file to match. (ie if your two images are both 600 x 300 create new file 1200 x 300).
Then copy your first image and paste it as a new layer on your blank file. Then copy your second image and again paste it as a new layer.
You should have three layers. The blank one and the two copies of your images.
It should be then 'just a simple' matter of dragging those two images to their correct positions.

Once happy with the results flatten the file. Remember to keep saving the file as a PSPImage file.

bruce

[hartpaul]

Essentially what you are trying to do is create a panorama using scans rather than photographed images.

I covered this back in 2013 here is the link

viewtopic.php?f=56&t=52376&p=281423&hil ... er#p281423

I notice that Photbucket has changed its procedures possibly due to the backlash . They stopped third party sharing by having the image replaced by a photobucket logo. So people stopped using them. With second thoughts they have now allowed the image but include a logo as advertising . Funny that!
There are also other videos and text tutorials on panoramas

PSP2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXLNNBOSWvc

PSPX6
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWhuHmUIOu0

Text Tutorial
https://support.corel.com/hc/en-us/arti ... ntShop-Pro

[ehume]

Essentially what you are trying to do is create a panorama using scans rather than photographed images.

I covered this back in 2013 here is the link

viewtopic.php?f=56&t=52376&p=281423&hil ... er#p281423

I notice that Photbucket has changed its procedures possibly due to the backlash . They stopped third party sharing by having the image replaced by a photobucket logo. So people stopped using them. With second thoughts they have now allowed the image but include a logo as advertising . Funny that!
There are also other videos and text tutorials on panoramas

PSP2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXLNNBOSWvc

PSPX6
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWhuHmUIOu0

Text Tutorial
https://support.corel.com/hc/en-us/arti ... ntShop-Pro

I see nothing has changed in a long time.
Q: why doesn't PSP have a Stitch tool, like ICE? Even Affinity has a Stitch tool.

[JackOlson]

oh my gosh, that is EXACTLY what I needed to know.
thank you so much.

[MarkZ]

Additional comment to Bruce's - when dragging the images reduce the opacity of the top one so that you can see the overlap clearly then change it back to 100% when finished.