[Discuss] stitching images together in The Gimp ??

[Murray Strome]

p.willis at telus.net wrote:
> Quoting Larry Gagnon <lggagnon at uniserve.com>:
>
>   
>> I am attempting to stitch together some smaller orthophoto images of 
>> Victoria into one larger one, using the Gimp. Rather unsuccessfully. 
>> Methodology so far is to open the first image, increase its Canvas Size, 
>> open second image, select all, copy and then paste 2nd image into first 
>> and then move it until it stitches together correctly and then choose 
>> Layer, Anchor Layer, Save.
>>
>>   However, increasing the canvas size again for the 3rd image works but 
>> doing the same manouever causes the pasted 3rd image to not fill the new 
>> canvas size, it gets chopped off even though the canvas is large enough.
>>
>> Any ideas appreciated.
>>
>>
>> ************
>> Larry Gagnon
>>
>>     
> Some panorama tools. I don't know if they work vertically though.
>
> http://bugbear.blackfish.org.uk/~bruno/panorama-tools/
>
> Peter
>   
You might try by just creating a new Gimp image that is large enough to 
hold all the images you are trying to stitch, then pasting the 
individual images into it. You shouldn't need to worry about layers. I 
have done this type of thing OK, but not exactly what you are doing.

Murray