My Truck Artical (Photo Edit Help Needed)

[Victor Laury]

I scanned the article about my 71 truck from Lightning Mag. However, Most of my photos are on the crease. What can I do to stitch the two halves together? I hop I don't have to by a $600 photo edit program!

http://public.fotki.com/DatsunVic/photo-artical-of-my/

Oh. Can anyone Translate for Me?

[Carl Beck]

Photoshop Elements is about $79.95 - and in many cases there is a $20.00 mail in rebate if you have a previous version of Photoshop.

Elements will do just about anything you want... once you learn how to use it. Runs on the Mac or Wintel type PC

Carl B.

[g72s20]

Open up the left side pic in paint,("Paint" should be under -START- All Programs-Accessories-)widen the palette area in readiness for the right side, then (in paint) go "edit", "paste from", open up the right side pic from where ever you have it saved and slide it into place beside the left half on the "paint" palette. Cheap and nasty but seems ok?

[cbudvet]

If you have more than one copy of the magazine, I would cut one apart so you could lay the pictures completely flat on the scanner. It makes it harder (not impossible) to reattach the photos because the ends curve down and distort the picture slightly. Carl

[cbudvet]

It is amazing what you can do with photoshop. With just a few minutes you can blend the two pictures together. I ended up pixelating the picture to help hide some of the defects. It is still hard to get the curves of the truck bed to blend (especially the chrome trim). Carl

[geezer]

Hi Vic - Did you try to get copies of the original pics before publication? That might be a lot easier. I kinda like the partial image effect.

[Victor Laury]

If you have more than one copy of the magazine, I would cut one apart so you could lay the pictures completely flat on the scanner. It makes it harder (not impossible) to reattach the photos because the ends curve down and distort the picture slightly. Carl

I do. I was trying to avoid hurting even my extra copy, but your right. If I want to do it right, There's not much avoiding it.

Although, this whole exercise is a learning process. I recently came into a tresure trove of Nostalgic Hero's and other Japanese published vintage car magazine special editions. I'm learning to scan them properly to share them with you all.

One is of particular value to me (and some of you). It's the 1982 Silhoutte Formula Pictorial (Offical Program publication?). unfortunately, It's too large of a format for my scanner, and it would have to be done in pieces and stitched together. The binding of this book is shot so taking it apart to scan flat will not be a problem.

[Victor Laury]

Photoshop Elements is about $79.95 - and in many cases there is a $20.00 mail in rebate if you have a previous version of Photoshop.

I think this may come into a hobby enough to warrant me buying this. Thanks Carl. I did not know there was a "lite", affordable version of the venerable PhotoShop. The whole shebang is too extensive (and expensive) for any, other than a graphic artist.

[zbane]

I was looking around for some photo editing programs and found this one

http://graphicssoft.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?zi=1/XJ&sdn=graphicssoft&cdn=compute&tm=22&gps=360_573_1020_609&f=11&su=p284.5.420.ip_&tt=3&bt=1&bts=1&zu=http%3A//www.eecs.wsu.edu/paint.net/

It was developed at Washington State University, and has many cool features. It's got "outline," "redeye reduction" (fun for red cars), and many others.

Just thought I'd share.

The trippy colored one was accomplished with "adjustment"-"hue/saturation"

If you are curious about how your car would look in a different color, this is the one you want to fiddle with.

[bj2348]

Victor,

Check out http://www.gimp.org/. GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) is a "Photoshop" like package that is FREE. There are Mac OSX, Windows and Linux versions out there. I was a Photoshop guy until I tried GIMP. Everything I can do in Photoshop I can do in GIMP.

Jay

[Arne]

I too use Photoshop Elements. Great tool for the price. GIMP is great, but like full-bore Photoshop, the learning curve is steep. Elements is much simpler.

[Zs-ondabrain]

here's mine, kinda crappy but hey, at least I tried. I used Presto image folio. hole lot cut-copy and pasting. Too many angles for my POS program.