Getting images aligned.

[asdal]

I have serries of image taken in burst mode but handheld. I need to have then all aligned. That is have eye on each in exact same spot so when shown in slide show they are in register. How do I do that? Thanks.

[Tom K]

One simple method to try is to turn on the grid located under the view menu. It may be necessary to go to preferences to set a small number of squares in the grid. Then select an image, zoom in big and using the move tool center the 'eye' over a particular grid intersection. once all images are centered it may be necessary to crop to a consistent size.

Hope this works for you...... Tom:)

[Jeff Perry]

Asdal, This is going to be a fair amount of work, depending on the number of images in the burst.

In order to perfectly align the photos, it will involve horizontal and vertical registration as well as rotational registration. Lastly the images, once combined, all have to be cropped to exactly to the same dimensions, otherwise the registration effort will have been wasted.

I would suggest that you start with your best image, and then one by one, add each new photo as a new layer to the "best image", opening the second image and dragging it with the Move Tool (V) and dropping it onto the "best image" in the photo bin. In the case make sure you drag down to the Bin, not up from the Bin.

Close the second image file, leaving only the original file that now has two layers.

After the second image is on top of the "best image", reduce the opacity to 50% more or less so you can see the "best image" below it. Move the second image right/left/up/down until it is registered, then rotate it if necessary.

After you have the second image properly registered with the "best image", turn the second layer off and open the next image and repeat the process.

To keep things neat and tidy, after you open and move an image onto the "stack", close that image, leaving only the primary image with the stack of layers.

When you are done, you want a single file, with the "best image" on the bottom and all other layers stacked on top, all registered with the same single layer on the bottom.

Now crop the entire stack to the final size.

Now right click on each individual layer and select Duplicate Layer, and in the dialog box, select a new file name. Save the new file with a new name. Do it for each layer.

When you are done, you will have a bunch of new cropped files, all the same size, each registered with the original.

Jeff