How to join two different scans into one image?

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On Sat, 07 Aug 2004 18:56:43 -0000, Ramicus ramicus staggered into the
Black Sun and said:
> I'd like to scan an image larger than my scanner area by making two
> separate scans and then just joining them together. Is there a
> freeware program that I can use to do that?

Probably, but you should've said which version of which OS you're
running. There are 'Doze and OS X binary packages of Gimp, a free-beer
and free-speech image editor, at http://gimp.org/ . If you're running a
Real OS, you probably already have Gimp installed. You can also use
ImageMagick to concatenate images left-to-right like so:

convert +append image01.tif image02.tif combinedimage.tif

....and ImageMagick is available for a lot of OSes at
http://imagemagick.org/ . You're going to have to edit the combined
image some no matter what you do, since things never line up perfectly
in the real world, so you might want to grab a copy of Gimp unless you
have another image editor hanging around. HTH,

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- wrote:
> Panotools. Probably overkill for what you want but it is powerful. There
> are a couple of free as well as pay graphical user interfaces available on
> the net to make things easier.

I've installed Panorama Tools and the gimp plugin for it on my Linux
system. with some effort, I've figured out how to do a few things, but
even after considerable google searching, I haven't found a really
comprehensive explanation of how to use its features. For example, I
now know how to correct radial luminosity starting at the center of the
image, but what if I want to start lower? Any references for detailed
help on how to use it? Or do I just have to keep scrounging and
experimenting?

>
> Doug