Photo-editing experts needed!!!!

[Gomer]

I have about 60 images I need to "stitch" together. They are scanned photographs from an overfly of an area for an aerial survey. There is a fair bit of overlap in the pictures and I was wondering if there was some free or inexpensive software that can merge them all into one image. These are 8" by 8" images scanned in at 300 dpi.

I will be doing my own search but though I would look for advice here first as I know there are some able folks.

[thekingofpain]

Hmmm---how were you gonna output it?

Looking for a map type image? Scaled to some degree?

I had Mac software years ago that allowed you the manipulate the images together seamlessly, then scale it to a usable size, im sure there is something better now---free might be tough but not entirely impossible...

[Gomer]

It will be imported into Autocad and overlayed over a project I am working on. It does not really need to be at a certain scale as Autocad has some imaging tools that rescale and rubbersheet the image by using known points in both the cad drawing and image, i.e. section corners, road intersections etc.

I have found a load of programs on the net using google that seem like they will do the trick. I was just wondering if someone had some experience w/ a particular program. One that looks promising is panavoew image assembler.

[implexant]

I have access to an Olympus digi that does that. Problem is that the software only works on pictures taken with the Olympus, on an Olympus digi card.

I've tried other software on the net to paste photos together and try and create a pano and it's just a mess. Never did get it to work.

Good luck though!

-Chris

[ChoaticWhisper]

Seems that something like photoshop or GIMP would work using layers and opacity/transparency to lay the next image down would work. But Im not sure, I might have missunderstood.

[dustyrun]

Photoshop would do it. If there is a demo verson out, you might try that.

Rick