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Post by Inspeqtor on Sept 6, 2020 2:58:35 GMT
I have 2 photos of Jupiter I am wanting to merge. An over exposed photo to show the moons of Jupiter, and a photo of Jupiter to show the "color and lines" of Jupiter the planet. These two were taken both tonight, Sept 5, 2020 The problem of course is that Jupiter itself is not in the same exact position on each image so to get Jupiter to look right within the moons will be very difficult. I will have to be able to "move" one image around on top of the other to get the image to look correct. This first image is cropped greatly so you can see where the moons are. I believe I will have to have each image at the same pixel size and with no cropping done in either image to keep the actual size of Jupiter the same size in each image for this to work. Here is the other image with no copping done. When each image is the same total size width and height I am not sure how to move the image on top of the other. Also the moons tonight are all on the right side. Two are clearly visible but there is a third just to the right side and slightly lower than the one on the far right side. I do hope my explanation is clear, but many times I do this it is not clear I have found. Thank you for any help you can give me, to be able to line up Jupiter correctly from one image to the other image. Here is a another picture I took Friday night Sept 4th. Two moons each side of Jupiter
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Post by Inspeqtor on Sept 6, 2020 3:00:45 GMT
My intention is that after I get the good image of Jupiter properly lined up then merge the images together and also then crop the image smaller to be able to see the moons easier.
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Post by BuckSkin on Sept 6, 2020 15:52:47 GMT
Load both full size images in the Editor. Go to Window > Images > Tile = you should now be able to see both images Click on the Jupiter image to make it active. In the Layers palette, no special tools necessary, grab (click and hold) the thumbnail of the layer, hold the Shift key and drag/drop the Jupiter thumbnail onto the Moons tile = you should now have a Jupiter layer on top of the Moons Background. Draw a selection around Jupiter, including a bit of the sky around it. Feather this selection quite a bit to make the edges fuzzy. Go to Select > Invert Selection Hit the Delete or Backspace key = everything except Jupiter should disappear from the Jupiter layer. Use the Move tool to place Jupiter wherever you wish.
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Post by Inspeqtor on Sept 6, 2020 21:09:48 GMT
Load both full size images in the Editor. Go to Window > Images > Tile = you should now be able to see both images Click on the Jupiter image to make it active. In the Layers palette, no special tools necessary, grab (click and hold) the thumbnail of the layer, hold the Shift key and drag/drop the Jupiter thumbnail onto the Moons tile = you should now have a Jupiter layer on top of the Moons Background. Draw a selection around Jupiter, including a bit of the sky around it. Feather this selection quite a bit to make the edges fuzzy. Go to Select > Invert Selection Hit the Delete or Backspace key = everything except Jupiter should disappear from the Jupiter layer. Use the Move tool to place Jupiter wherever you wish. Thank you Buckskin! I will give this a try!!
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Post by Inspeqtor on Sept 6, 2020 22:57:00 GMT
IMG_1094 Jupiter Crop2-R1600 by inspeqtor, on Flickr As I hope you can see (I am trying to use Flickr here) this is my final product. Jupiter is not as in focus as i wish it was, but I THINK this is as good as I will get with the image I took. There is a 3rd moon to the far right just below the other moon there... Thank you very much Buckskin!!
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