Posted on 11/30/11

MacMost Forum / Is There a Way To Stitch Photos Together In Mac OS X?

Is there a way to take multiple photos and stitch them together into one large image in Mac OS X?
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Cameron

4 Responses to “Is There a Way To Stitch Photos Together In Mac OS X?”

  1. Gary Rosenzweig says:
    11/30/11 at 8:30 pm

    This is something that would be done with a particular piece of software, not the OS itself.
    Photoshop, of course, can do this easily. Cheaper graphics editors can do it too: Seashore, SketchBook, GIMP, etc. You can even do it with Preview, which you already have on your Mac.
    Episode 520 (http://macmost.com/cutting-out-objects-in-images-using-preview.html) isn’t about this, in particular, but it does give you an idea of how to work with images in Preview.
    The basics, no matter which program you use, is to create a canvas that is larger than a single image. Maybe large enough for a 2×2 grid of images or whatever. Then copy and paste the images into this larger canvas.
    Perhaps you know someone who works with Photoshop or other graphics programs and can show you.
    A trick you can use, depending on your needs, would be to print a set of photos from iPhoto, say 4 on a page. But print to a PDF instead of to your printer. Then you have a PDF with several images. That might be all you need.

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    • Cameron says:
      11/30/11 at 8:46 pm

      How does one create a canvas in Preview? I pasted one photo into another, but when I tried to place it alongside the first, instead of pushing the window boundary, it went out of sight.

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      • Gary Rosenzweig says:
        11/30/11 at 9:01 pm

        One way would be to open any image. Then go to Tools, Adjust Size. Make it exactly the size you want. Then select and delete the image to create a blank document. Save it as something different at that point. Then start using the canvas as you like.

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  2. Mr Anthony Cotton says:
    12/1/11 at 4:39 pm

    I knew nothing about Preview only that you could look at PDF`s Gary told me about it and i downloaded his video on Preview,and it`s amazing what it can do. I saw a painting done by Preview, and to be quite honest there wasn`t any difference if you done it in Photoshop. The key to me was in Gary`s video the tools, and i would say i am not an expert on it,but i have come a log way to using it. Thanks to Gary`s help.

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