Creating a collage

[Anders Lund]

There appears to be no tool in KDE, that allows me to create a collage/montage
combining a few images into one :(

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Gimp !

Marie-Noëlle

2013/9/2 Anders Lund <[hidden email]>

There appears to be no tool in KDE, that allows me to create a collage/montage
combining a few images into one :(

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[Anders Lund]

On Mandag den 2. september 2013 20:18:42, Marie-Noëlle Augendre wrote:
> Gimp !
 
Not even installed... I have inkscape. But really, I'd love an app where I
could just drag some images, and select how they should be arranged.

Fotowall is really very, very odd, the built in photo layout tool makes my
shoulders very, very stiff. There is a java app called shape collage, but
there is not even a package for that in my distro (chakra) :\

Maybe the easiest solution would be to use calligra words :o

> Marie-Noëlle
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> 2013/9/2 Anders Lund <[hidden email]>
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> > There appears to be no tool in KDE, that allows me to create a
> > collage/montage
> > combining a few images into one :(
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Le 02/09/2013 20:23, Anders Lund a écrit :
> On Mandag den 2. september 2013 20:18:42, Marie-Noëlle Augendre wrote:
>> Gimp !


no

http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/layers/#append

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[Anders Lund]

On Mandag den 2. september 2013 20:33:45, jdd wrote:
> Le 02/09/2013 20:23, Anders Lund a écrit :
> > On Mandag den 2. september 2013 20:18:42, Marie-Noëlle Augendre wrote:
> >> Gimp !
>
> no
>
> http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/layers/#append

In the case of imagemagcick, I'd prefer montage(1). But again, not as
comfortable as a gui app...

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[Jean-François Rabasse-2]

On Mon, 2 Sep 2013, Anders Lund wrote:

> There appears to be no tool in KDE, that allows me to create a collage/montage
> combining a few images into one :(

Hi Anders,

With the ImageMagik package, there's plenty of command line tools, not
just the convert program.

To do montages there's ... montage.
Using the proper options, you can do exactly the layout you wish.

E.g. montage of IMG1.jpg and IMG2.jpg, side by side from left to right :
   montage -geometry +2+0 -tile 2x1 IMG1.jpg IMG2.jpg FinalImage.jpg

+2+0 means to add 2 pixels horizontal between images, but can be 0 or
whatever.

Montage of two images, but in top bottom order :
   montage -geometry +0+2 -tile 1x2 IMG1.jpg IMG2.jpg FinalImage.jpg

The -tile argument specifies layout in columns x lines form.
Montage of 4 images, 2 then 2 under, would be  -tile 2x2, etc.

This tool is very efficient and fast, and you can use it in scripts.
Have a look at the program documentation, there's many options.

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[Gilles Caulier-4]

Try this one :

http://www.flickr.com/photos/digikam/9656136465/

It's a kipi-plugin available from "Tools/Create Photos Layout" menu entry...

Gilles Caulier

2013/9/2 Jean-François Rabasse <[hidden email]>:

>
> On Mon, 2 Sep 2013, Anders Lund wrote:
>
>> There appears to be no tool in KDE, that allows me to create a
>> collage/montage
>> combining a few images into one :(
>
>
> Hi Anders,
>
> With the ImageMagik package, there's plenty of command line tools, not just
> the convert program.
>
> To do montages there's ... montage.
> Using the proper options, you can do exactly the layout you wish.
>
> E.g. montage of IMG1.jpg and IMG2.jpg, side by side from left to right :
>   montage -geometry +2+0 -tile 2x1 IMG1.jpg IMG2.jpg FinalImage.jpg
>
> +2+0 means to add 2 pixels horizontal between images, but can be 0 or
> whatever.
>
> Montage of two images, but in top bottom order :
>   montage -geometry +0+2 -tile 1x2 IMG1.jpg IMG2.jpg FinalImage.jpg
>
> The -tile argument specifies layout in columns x lines form.
> Montage of 4 images, 2 then 2 under, would be  -tile 2x2, etc.
>
> This tool is very efficient and fast, and you can use it in scripts.
> Have a look at the program documentation, there's many options.
>
> Regards,
> Jean-François
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Le 02/09/2013 23:33, Gilles Caulier a écrit :
> Try this one :
>
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/digikam/9656136465/
>
> It's a kipi-plugin available from "Tools/Create Photos Layout" menu entry...

I found it, but could not make anything with it, it only displays one
image and I can do nothing with it, and no help

the inline doc is very old (suse 10.0 :-!)

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It works for me: just click on the selector button (up left) then you can drag&drop any picture from the main window to the canvas.

I've not tested further, though, as I'm not very interested in this kind of tool; good to know it exists. :-)

Marie-Noëlle

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Le 02/09/2013 23:33, Gilles Caulier a écrit :

Try this one :

http://www.flickr.com/photos/digikam/9656136465/

It's a kipi-plugin available from "Tools/Create Photos Layout" menu entry...

I found it, but could not make anything with it, it only displays one image and I can do nothing with it, and no help

the inline doc is very old (suse 10.0 :-!)

thanks
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Love the translation of the border function: "lick to set an imag"! :D

Guess some letters have been lost in the process.

Marie-Noëlle

2013/9/3 Marie-Noëlle Augendre <[hidden email]>

It works for me: just click on the selector button (up left) then you can drag&drop any picture from the main window to the canvas.

I've not tested further, though, as I'm not very interested in this kind of tool; good to know it exists. :-)

Marie-Noëlle

2013/9/3 jdd <[hidden email]>

Le 02/09/2013 23:33, Gilles Caulier a écrit :

Try this one :

http://www.flickr.com/photos/digikam/9656136465/

It's a kipi-plugin available from "Tools/Create Photos Layout" menu entry...

I found it, but could not make anything with it, it only displays one image and I can do nothing with it, and no help

the inline doc is very old (suse 10.0 :-!)

thanks
jdd

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[Remco Viëtor]

On Tuesday 03 September 2013 08:11:20 jdd wrote:
> Le 02/09/2013 23:33, Gilles Caulier a écrit :
> > Try this one :
> >
> > http://www.flickr.com/photos/digikam/9656136465/
> >
> > It's a kipi-plugin available from "Tools/Create Photos Layout" menu
entry...

>
> I found it, but could not make anything with it, it only displays one
> image and I can do nothing with it, and no help
>
> the inline doc is very old (suse 10.0 :-!)
>
> thanks
> jdd
>
>

Drag&Drop extra images on it, then you can move them around, rotate, scale
etc.

Anders mentioned it in one of his replies, and he seems not to like it,
though after a quick look it seemed to be able to do what he wanted/asked
for.

@Gilles: one thing I found strange was the scaling, which changes the
aspect ratio (I'd expect that scaling with the corners would maintain the
aspect ratio, unless I used a special key to change the behaviour, it is a
photo editor after all)
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Le 03/09/2013 08:43, Remco Viëtor a écrit :

> Drag&Drop extra images on it, then you can move them around, rotate, scale
> etc.

sure, but nothing works, I can just drag and drop *one* image, the
second remove the first and I can't move them (I even tried with small
images of 500 pix wide, same thing)

V 3.2

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[Stuart T Rogers]

I just tried this and find you can only move the image when clicking on
the centre and dragging.

I agree that it should by default keep aspect ratio when scaling. Also
so far I've not found out how to reorder which is to the front. I've
also not tried the rotate yet.

Stuart

On 03/09/13 08:26, jdd wrote:

> Le 03/09/2013 08:43, Remco Viëtor a écrit :
>
>> Drag&Drop extra images on it, then you can move them around, rotate,
>> scale
>> etc.
>
> sure, but nothing works, I can just drag and drop *one* image, the
> second remove the first and I can't move them (I even tried with small
> images of 500 pix wide, same thing)
>
> V 3.2
>
> jdd
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[Remco Viëtor]

On Tuesday 03 September 2013 09:26:23 jdd wrote:
> Le 03/09/2013 08:43, Remco Viëtor a écrit :
>
> > Drag&Drop extra images on it, then you can move them around, rotate,
scale
> > etc.
>
> sure, but nothing works, I can just drag and drop *one* image, the
> second remove the first and I can't move them (I even tried with small
> images of 500 pix wide, same thing)
>
> V 3.2
>
> jdd

In version 3.3 (from OpenSuSE KDE 4.11 repository), I can select multiple
images and then start the layout tool, or drop extra images on the canvas.
I didn't try dropping them on the image list.

For moving, rotating or scaling, you'll have to select the proper tool in
the right-hand tab. To pull an image to foreground, move it to the top of
the image list (small arrows just above the list, or right mouse click).

The tool still feels rather rough, but it's much easier to use than GIMP or
imagemagick for the job it does. Most of the rough edges are probably from
a lack of documentation, but I hit one real bug: I added a border, and then
tried to add a second border => segfault and Digikam closed. (I'll report
it later as a bug, after a bit more testing, and seeing if I can get a
proper backtrace)


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Le 03/09/2013 09:30, Stuart T Rogers a écrit :
> I just tried this and find you can only move the image when clicking
> on the centre and dragging.

oh... and this unblocked all the process

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On 03/09/13 09:33, jdd wrote:
> Le 03/09/2013 09:30, Stuart T Rogers a écrit :
>> I just tried this and find you can only move the image when clicking
>> on the centre and dragging.
>
> oh... and this unblocked all the process
>
> thanks
> jdd
>

I am using dk 3.1.0.
When I start the photo layouts editor tool nothing seems to work. The
cursor is the standard arrow pointer. Looking to the right hand panel
under tools I see that the icon showing a hand is selected. OK, this
suggests moving to me but clicking on the images does not move them at
all. Clicking on the icon showing an arrow, which suggests select, now
allows me to select the pictures. Clicking on the hand icon now turns
the cursor into a hand. Clicking on an image makes the hand grip but
nothing moves.

Finally I hover the cursor over the hand icon to get the tool tip. Up it
comes 'Viewing tool' - what on earth does that mean? I then hover the
cursor over the arrow icon and finally the tool tip gives a clue as to
what is going on - 'Allows to select and move images on canvas'.

So the arrow icon tool not only allows selection of the images but also
moves them. What of the hand icon then? It still suggests movement but
nothing happens with it. Finally I try and reduce the size of the window
so that it is smaller than the canvas. Now the hand icon moves the whole
canvas around in the view port.

The fact that the hand icon is selected at the beginning but the cursor
is an arrow is a small bug.

The tool tip for the arrow is bad grammar and too long but at least
tells you what is happening even if that is not what you would expect.
It would be better saying just 'Select and move images'.

The tool tip for the hand icon conveys nothing to me. Maybe 'Panning
tool' would be better. Personally I would remove this tool completely as
it is not actually needed. You can perform the panning with the
scrollbars or you could make the cursor keys pan the canvas. At the
least the default tool selected initially should be the 'Select and
move' tool.

Andrew
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Le 03/09/2013 22:00, Andrew Goodbody a écrit :

> movement but nothing happens with it. Finally I try and reduce the
> size of the window so that it is smaller than the canvas. Now the hand
> icon moves the whole canvas around in the view port.

had had missed this one :-)


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[Michael Gerdau-3]

> There appears to be no tool in KDE, that allows me to create a
> collage/montage combining a few images into one :(

I just read a note on fotoxx which is supposed to do the job.

http://www.kornelix.com/fotoxx.html

Best wishes,
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