collage maker?

On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 07:17:26 +0100, wrote:

for the life of me i can’t remember the name of the program, but i am sure i have seen somethign around. I have seen several from googling but seems collage is a wide term and not always meaning pics blended into each other.

Does anyone know a plugin to do this? What has sparked this is, ms have release auto collage maker, its really good although in its present form a little limiting.

Anyone know of a plug that does something similar on photoshop?

The only plugin needed, Paul, is imagination.
Imagination, a few photos, and Photoshop.
Your imagination. Not that of a plugin_writer.
http://dave.photos.gb.net/p40034295.html

imagination is fine, if your getting paid money, 🙂 hence a quick plugin, the ms one is brill for me, but not perfect.

On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 11:43:52 +0200, Dave wrote:

On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 07:17:26 +0100, wrote:

for the life of me i can’t remember the name of the program, but i am sure i have seen somethign around. I have seen several from googling but seems collage is a wide term and not always meaning pics blended into each other.

Does anyone know a plugin to do this? What has sparked this is, ms have release auto collage maker, its really good although in its present form a little limiting.

Anyone know of a plug that does something similar on photoshop?

The only plugin needed, Paul, is imagination.
Imagination, a few photos, and Photoshop.
Your imagination. Not that of a plugin_writer.
http://dave.photos.gb.net/p40034295.html

On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 07:17:26 +0100, wrote:

for the life of me i can’t remember the name of the program, but i am sure i have seen somethign around. I have seen several from googling but seems collage is a wide term and not always meaning pics blended into each other.

Does anyone know a plugin to do this? What has sparked this is, ms have release auto collage maker, its really good although in its present form a little limiting.

Anyone know of a plug that does something similar on photoshop?

I use bridge, select 3 or more pix, then tools, photomerge. Best using interactive, then you can have some control of the result. Or you can use photomerge directly from PS.
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more pix @ http://members.toast.net/cbminfo/index.html

http://www.autofx.com/products/Dreamsuite2/effects/filmFrame Art.html

wow , i never knew about photomerge, thats a tools thankyou for bringing it to my attention. Thats what the plugin did , or very similar to what i was talking about

On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 08:27:48 -0400, wrote:

On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 07:17:26 +0100, wrote:

for the life of me i can’t remember the name of the program, but i am sure i have seen somethign around. I have seen several from googling but seems collage is a wide term and not always meaning pics blended into each other.

Does anyone know a plugin to do this? What has sparked this is, ms have release auto collage maker, its really good although in its present form a little limiting.

Anyone know of a plug that does something similar on photoshop?

I use bridge, select 3 or more pix, then tools, photomerge. Best using interactive, then you can have some control of the result. Or you can use photomerge directly from PS.

thank you for the suggestion, i was looking for a collage maker, not really to add effects. Does seem photomerge is an option, doesnt seem to fade in, ot not that i have tried yet. but the effect it gives is interesting.

On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 10:17:46 -0700, "robert_b" wrote:

http://www.autofx.com/products/Dreamsuite2/effects/filmFrame Art.html

Google autocollage

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wow , i never knew about photomerge, thats a tools thankyou for bringing it to my attention. Thats what the plugin did , or very similar to what i was talking about

On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 08:27:48 -0400, wrote:

On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 07:17:26 +0100, wrote:

for the life of me i can’t remember the name of the program, but i am sure i have seen somethign around. I have seen several from googling but seems collage is a wide term and not always meaning pics blended into each other.

Does anyone know a plugin to do this? What has sparked this is, ms have release auto collage maker, its really good although in its present form a little limiting.

Anyone know of a plug that does something similar on photoshop?

I use bridge, select 3 or more pix, then tools, photomerge. Best using interactive, then you can have some control of the result. Or you can use photomerge directly from PS.

photomerge is more of a Stitching type effect

it will match up frames edges to make panoramas
and it is fun to use

you could place your images in there manually for a start of the collage

I don’t name that a "collage" though
I made all my collages by manual techniques in Photoshop using multiple images masks and layers adding brushworks etc

simple collages with 2-3 images
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/176/437691416_1942fc29c3_b.jp g

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/118/424496081_311b58a726_o.jp g

panorama using photomerge
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3181/2865314833_264290bf66_o.

I took this with my own snapshot camera –no tripod as an experiment for stitching
I had not used it before

John J wrote:

Go here: http://research.microsoft.com/autocollage/Download.aspx

You can try it free, our purchase it for something like $19US

You can tell AutoCollage to take pictures from a folder and it automatically makes a collage. It uses transparency to overlap and mix the images. If you don’t like what it created, just hit the Create button until you get something that works for you.

(When it starts it immediately looks in the the My Pictures folder. You can redirect it.)

thats was teh ms one i mentioned on my initial post, its not bad and pretty celver but not quiet there there yet.

On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 13:34:46 -0500, John J wrote:

John J wrote:

Go here: http://research.microsoft.com/autocollage/Download.aspx
You can try it free, our purchase it for something like $19US
You can tell AutoCollage to take pictures from a folder and it automatically makes a collage. It uses transparency to overlap and mix the images. If you don’t like what it created, just hit the Create button until you get something that works for you.

(When it starts it immediately looks in the the My Pictures folder. You can redirect it.)

i never messed with photomerge either, its not bad either, looks like i’ll be a combination of a few things. Photomerge as you say i think is more designed for stitching, not really for montages, as each picture is different it struggles someties to get a nice crossover between each pic.

as previous stated you can’t beat your own brain, but hopefully now what i learned in the last coupld of days will save me a lot of time on somethign which i don’t get paid extra for anyway.

thanks again to all the contributors.

On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 14:34:40 -0400, "KatWoman" wrote:

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wow , i never knew about photomerge, thats a tools thankyou for bringing it to my attention. Thats what the plugin did , or very similar to what i was talking about

On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 08:27:48 -0400, wrote:

On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 07:17:26 +0100, wrote:

for the life of me i can’t remember the name of the program, but i am sure i have seen somethign around. I have seen several from googling but seems collage is a wide term and not always meaning pics blended into each other.

Does anyone know a plugin to do this? What has sparked this is, ms have release auto collage maker, its really good although in its present form a little limiting.

Anyone know of a plug that does something similar on photoshop?

I use bridge, select 3 or more pix, then tools, photomerge. Best using interactive, then you can have some control of the result. Or you can use photomerge directly from PS.

photomerge is more of a Stitching type effect

it will match up frames edges to make panoramas
and it is fun to use

you could place your images in there manually for a start of the collage
I don’t name that a "collage" though
I made all my collages by manual techniques in Photoshop using multiple images masks and layers adding brushworks etc

simple collages with 2-3 images
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/176/437691416_1942fc29c3_b.jp g
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/118/424496081_311b58a726_o.jp g

panorama using photomerge
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3181/2865314833_264290bf66_o.
I took this with my own snapshot camera –no tripod as an experiment for stitching
I had not used it before

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thats was teh ms one i mentioned on my initial post, its not bad and pretty celver but not quiet there there yet.

Then use your brain or wait until someone reads it and makes what you want. See ya in 100 years.

On Thu, 18 Sep 2008 08:11:55 +0100, wrote:

i never messed with photomerge either, its not bad either, looks like i’ll be a combination of a few things. Photomerge as you say i think is more designed for stitching, not really for montages, as each picture is different it struggles someties to get a nice crossover between each pic.

as previous stated you can’t beat your own brain, but hopefully now what i learned in the last coupld of days will save me a lot of time on somethign which i don’t get paid extra for anyway.

thanks again to all the contributors.

You do realize you can accomplish the same thing with better results than fotomerge if you do what fotomerge does directly in PS with individual layers and manipulating the opacity to see what needs to be removed ?

fotomerge was / is a good tool to TEACH you steps involved in blending pictures to overlap seamlessly.

Creating a template, if you intend to do more of the same is also a good idea. It helps to focus things to specific areas vs an open canvas. —
more pix @ http://members.toast.net/cbminfo/index.html

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for the life of me i can’t remember the name of the program, but i am sure i have seen somethign around. I have seen several from googling but seems collage is a wide term and not always meaning pics blended into each other.

Does anyone know a plugin to do this? What has sparked this is, ms have release auto collage maker, its really good although in its present form a little limiting.

Anyone know of a plug that does something similar on photoshop?

Paul

You might like to take a look at a standalone program called FotoFusion from LumaPix – <www.lumapix.com> There are three versions, the cheapest is ‘Essentials’ (aimed at scrapbookers), then ‘Enhanced’ and then ‘Extreme’ which is aimed at the professional photographer – which was the original intent of the software, I believe, but it was more or less hijacked by scrapbookers. Difference in the versions (apart from price) include a limit on output size in cheaper versions and Extreme has multiple pages.

Regards,

Anne

Nice link…thanks for sharing…

You might like to take a look at a standalone program called FotoFusion from LumaPix – <www.lumapix.com>

indeed

thankyou anne, not quitre what i was looking for, seems collage means two things, but its cartainly another angle that perhaps i can look at, all depoends on if the budget stretches that far. It certainly looks a thorough program and might be a change to move away fmor adobe.

On Fri, 19 Sep 2008 08:23:53 -0700, "robert_b" wrote:

Nice link…thanks for sharing…

You might like to take a look at a standalone program called FotoFusion from LumaPix – <www.lumapix.com>