Overlaying pictures Software ??

[Andy100]

I am interested in making a sort of 'time lapse' series of pictures. I was
planning on taking a photo of our garden at roughly the same time every day,
then put them together to flick through to see how it changes over the
autumn. Well, a bit ambitious, i know !, but the problem i have is the fact
that i won't know the exact line up of the last shot, so i cannot be sure of
taking the photos in EXACTLY the same frame. So i am going to need software
to view these pictures in an 'overlay' type of view (pictures one on top of
the other), so that i can line them all up perfectly then crop to a common
area in all pictures.

Yep, a bit hard to explain in words what i mean. Hopefully, someone out
there will know a way.

P.S. I have PSP8, but i'm pretty sure i cannot do it in there, or it's too
difficult. Is there such software out there which will do what i need
(preferably freeware) ?

Cheers
Andy

 

[Tom McDonald]

I am interested in making a sort of 'time lapse' series of pictures. I
was planning on taking a photo of our garden at roughly the same time
every day, then put them together to flick through to see how it
changes over the autumn. Well, a bit ambitious, i know !, but the
problem i have is the fact that i won't know the exact line up of the
last shot, so i cannot be sure of taking the photos in EXACTLY the
same frame. So i am going to need software to view these pictures in
an 'overlay' type of view (pictures one on top of the other), so that
i can line them all up perfectly then crop to a common area in all
pictures.

Yep, a bit hard to explain in words what i mean. Hopefully, someone
out there will know a way.

P.S. I have PSP8, but i'm pretty sure i cannot do it in there, or it's
too difficult. Is there such software out there which will do what i
need (preferably freeware) ?

Cheers
Andy

Andy, the best place to find help with this question is in the newsgroup
that deals with PSP:
comp.graphics.apps.paint-shop-pro
Marvelous friendly helpful people, who can make PSP jump through hoops.
Just don't start out by saying "I'm pretty sure I can't do it in PSP8."

 

[Andy100]

Cheers Tom, i'll have a go there !

Andrew

Andy, the best place to find help with this question is in the newsgroup
that deals with PSP:
comp.graphics.apps.paint-shop-pro
Marvelous friendly helpful people, who can make PSP jump through hoops.
Just don't start out by saying "I'm pretty sure I can't do it in PSP8."

 

[Adrian Carter]

I am interested in making a sort of 'time lapse' series of pictures. I was
planning on taking a photo of our garden at roughly the same time every day,
then put them together to flick through to see how it changes over the
autumn. Well, a bit ambitious, i know !, but the problem i have is the fact
that i won't know the exact line up of the last shot, so i cannot be sure of
taking the photos in EXACTLY the same frame. So i am going to need software
to view these pictures in an 'overlay' type of view (pictures one on top of
the other), so that i can line them all up perfectly then crop to a common
area in all pictures.

Yep, a bit hard to explain in words what i mean. Hopefully, someone out
there will know a way.

P.S. I have PSP8, but i'm pretty sure i cannot do it in there, or it's too
difficult. Is there such software out there which will do what i need
(preferably freeware) ?

Cheers
Andy

If you use Windows 2000 or earlier, you could try using Flasher.
http://www.homestead.com/adriancarter/Index.html

It also works in Windows XP, but is not strictly freeware there
(no payment required for Flasher itself, but the OCX it uses is
part of Imaging for Windows which is only available in the
professional version in Windows XP).

I have mostly used it for comparing versions of scanned documents,
but it might be of help for the purpose you describe. You could
load a single image into one tiff file, then load your other images
into multiple pages of a second tiff file. Then use the Autoflash tool
in combination with paging (with files "unsynchronised") to pass
pages from the second file across the first image.

HTH,
Adrian

 

[Uncas]

I haven't tried it myself but PhotoLapse might be what you're looking
for. Available from http://home.hccnet.nl/s.vd.palen/