Composite images

Hi, I'm pretty new to Macs and am loving using IPhoto but I was wondering if there was any way to create composite images i.e. taking bits of two photos and making them into one image (I think that's called a composite image?!).
If not, which program would you recommend which has such a feature? I was looking at Adobe Photoshop Elements 4 but don't know much about what's available.
Many thanks!

GavK:
Did your Mac come with OmniGraffle installed on it? If so give it a try. It's great for creating composites but has no image editing capabilities. It was included on some Macs. Otherwise if you have to purchase new software I heartily recommend Photoshop Elements 4. You can do some amazing advanced editing with it.
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Windows 7 64bit | Photoshop CS4 | iMatch DAM
Somewhere along the line I must have changed a setting, because many of my images now are not viewable in my DAM software (iMatch), or other photo viewers, like Picasa for instance. Instead, a small rectangular black box appears that says "This layered Photoshop file was not saved with a composite image". Can a contributor tell me where the setting is to save with a composite - Assistance is very much appreciated, IM

Thank you Chris,for the correct answer - Best, Bob

No composite image, no extension

I'm on a Mac computer, and having been using CS2 for a long time. All of a sudden something has changed. This is what it's doing:
When I try to mail someone a file by attaching it, there's no icon from the file. If I try to email the file to someone (as a psd), it sends a message in 4 languages saying: "This layered Photoshop file was not saved with a composite image" - NO extension, no box.
I tried throwing out preferences, disk utility to repair permissions, and then finally had to reinstall photoshop. It has not changed anything.
Also, all of the unopened files in my folders have this same little message next to them - none of them have the little picture in the icon (in preview). Does anyone have any idea what is wrong? PLEASE help! The only thing that has changed in the last couple of days is that I have installed wireless - and my partner is using photoshop at the same time I am.
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Are you seeing that message in mail, or after you save the file and open it in Photoshop?
Again, any application that can't read layers will see that message - and Apple's code doesn't read layers.
When you originally saved the file, you chose not to maximize compatibility, and that message was written in there to tell you about it. The file hasn't changed. Only your method for viewing the file has changed (to something that can't read layers).
If you open the file in Photoshop and see that message, then something went really wrong with the file - because something removed the layer information. If the layer information had been corrupted, you would have gotten a message about that from Photoshop.

Multi-camera IMAQdx systems: shortcuts for stitched composite image

Imagine a system using for example multiple GigE cameras through the IMAQdx interface where we wish to form a composite stitched image from the multiple camera views. The stitching principle is naive, straigthforward concatenation, one next to another.
The problem is that where it is trivial to build such a composite image, it's difficult to do it very efficiently. The image sizes are large, tens of megapixels, so every copy matters. Alternative hardware configurations would open up a lot of options but say we're stuck using GigE cameras and (atleast initially) the IMAQdx interface. What tricks, or even hacks, can you guys imagine facing this challenge?
I've seen some talk about the IMAQdx grab buffers and it appears to me that one cannot manually assign those buffers or access them directly. The absolute optimal scenario would of course be to hack your way around to stream the image data directly next to each other in the memory, sort of as shown below in scenario1.png:
The above, however, doesn't seem to be too easily achieved. Second scenario then would be to acquire into individual buffers and perform one copy into the composite image. See illustration below:
Interfaces usually allow this with relative ease. I haven't tested it yet but based on the documentation using ring buffer acquisition and "IMAQdx Extract Image.vi" this should be possible. Can anyone confirm this? The copying could be performed by external code as well. The last scenario, without ring buffer, using "IMAQdx Get Image2.vi" might look like this:
The second copy is a waste so this scenario should be out of the question.
I hope this made some sense. What do you wizards say about it?
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Hi,
Sorry, the contraints are not really well documented as they are dependent on platform, camera type, camera capabilities, and how the driver handles things. All of these are subject to change and so we decided instead to try to make the errors be very self-descriptive to explain how to fix any requirements.
You are correct that these fundamentally come down to making sure that the image buffer specified is able to be directly transferred to by the driver. The largest requirement is that the image data type is the same and doesn't need any decoding/conversion step. The other requirements are more flexible and change depending on many factors:
- No borders, since this adds a discontinuity between each line. This error doesn't apply to GigE Vision (since the CPU moves the data into the buffer) or to USB3 Vision cameras that have a special "LinePitch" feature that can allow them to pad the image lines. The USB drivers of more modern OSes (like Win8+) have more advanced DMA capabilities so it is possible/likely that this also can be ignored in the future.
- Line width must be a multiple of 64-bytes (the native image line alignment on Windows) - same as border
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Preview "this layered Photoshop file was not saved with a composite image" error message?

hi, i get this message:
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Thank you Chris,for the correct answer - Best, Bob

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This morning (as an experiment) I downloaded a trial copy of
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there a 3 different iteration suites. one for each bit depth.
i couldn't find them in the documentation but if you go to the definition of any of them in the code, you'll find the others.
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as for your x y question, i'm not sure what you're asking.
i managed to understand that question in 2 ways.
so here are 2 answers. :-)
1. if you're asking how to tell the coordinates of the pixel you're currently being handed by the iteration suite,
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to be more precise, it gives you the following data:
refcon - a pointer to whatever piece of memory you sent to the iteration function. (use it to transfer data into your iteration function)
x - the x coordinate of the current pixel in the output world.
y - that one's kind of obvious...
in - the current pixel's content from the input world (if the in and out worlds are of the same size, then the x and y coordinates for both worlds are the same)
out - the structure into which you put your result RGBA (you may fill that world with whatever you like before the iteration, thus getting two inputs to use for your calculation)
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these values are NOT comfortable to use for anything else.
why? relics of what was most efficient CPU-wise 12 years ago.
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in any case,
you don't have to get the input using the sample suite.
you can always use the input pixel as it is, or get the pixel from the quartz thingie you want to use.
i tend to think that the first answer was what you we're looking for , but what the heck.

Can I apply Burn to a composite image but without flattening?

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Guy Burns wrote:
I have uploaded a test image here…
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After Effects is not needed unless you are working on video. Silly. Might as well post it could be done on a $6000 Silicon Graphics machine... sure it CAN be done but going that route is sort of ridiculous.
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