This option will automatically scale the images DOWN to fit them in their orientation if the Alignment/scale factor is 0.5 or below. The Scaled option is the one I am most interested in here. The Aligned option will not resize any of the images, and will only align them.

This parameter has two options: Aligned and Scaled. If one of these orientations will work for you, then you’re all set! If you want more control on how the images are arranged, I go over it a little later. Horizontal, Vertical, Vertical Array, and Horizontal Array Here are the results of running each of these against my 5 test images: G'MIC will create a vertical arrangement of multiple columns, fitting all the images. G'MIC will create a horizontal arrangement of multiple rows, fitting the images. Īll of the images will be arranged vertically, width adjusted to all be the same. Īll of the images will be arranged horizontally, height adjusted to all be the same. You have complete control over the layout. The first setting you’ll want to take a look at is the Montage type. This way I can go back and easily tweak things as I fiddle.) (While you’re here, I also like to change the “ Output mode…” to be “ New image”. Handily, G’MIC numbers each of your images for you (this will come in handy later when you’re creating a custom montage layout. Your preview window should now change to show all your images. The first thing you’ll want to remember to do is to change the “ Input layers…” to something more appropriate (I like to use “ All visibles”). You’ll need to navigate to the new “Montage” filter:įiring up G’MIC to use the Montage filter To use the filter, you’ll want to load up all of the images you want to create the montage from as layers in GIMP. I used only two images here as a simple example, but it’s not any harder to do this with as many images as your memory will permit… Just a single parameter change and we can re-orient the images vertically like so: That means that it’s now trivially easy to combine multiple images and automatically have them scaled to fit each other, like this: (Add another half a day after I gave him a hard time about making the edges fit regardless of padding… Sorry David!) From describing it one afternoon, it was about a day to get something working. I know that he usually works quite fast, but he blew me away with how quick he got into the idea this time. What I was proposing to David was to programatically deal with fitting images given some manual input from the user. In the past, if I wanted to montage a series of images of different sizes, I would do it manually in GIMP. A photomontage is created as a result of a photographic or post processing method.So I was talking with G’MIC creator David Tschumperlé the other day and thought it might be handy to have a way to create a montage of images (similar to the montage command in Imagemagick), but to have more control over the montage layout with automatic image fitting. A collage is created using traditional ‘scissors and glue’ methods or tear and stick. However, the history of the word collage suggests that there is a distinct difference. The use of the term ‘collage’ is often used in common speech to be interchangeable with photomontage. Other terms could also be used for a few pictures combined as two or more on one image (see related links below). They may be unrelated or have a grouping apparent from the subjects of the individual images.Ī photomontage will be a composite of a multiple pictures that in some way organised to satisfy the photographers need to express themselves through multiple instances of a variety of images together. A photomontage may be logical in order, as in a story. So the arrangement of images is a matter of art. However, the use of a photomontage as an art form is frequent. Since photographs tend to have a regular, orderly shape, photomontages tend to be organized, laid out in picture sets. Considering photography in its more recent form, digital processing qualifies too. To be properly called a photomontage the creation of the final composite image should be through the use of ‘photographic processing’ – originally a chemical process. The result is a new synthesis which may create a picture in its own right, create a story, or convey artistic meaning in some other way.Ī photomontage is a particular form of the art of montage. In art in general, a ‘montage’ is the creation of a composite of multiple images or pictures which are mounted together so they blend in an artful way.

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