Hi there, new member here, I have an interesting Photoshop project going on and think there might be a simple way to speed it up that I'm not aware of.
I have recently finished making a recording (in HD) of a player piano roll being played - for those who haven't seen one of these before, it's a long roll of paper with bars denoting the notes the piano plays.
I have used Photoshop to create pictures every 5 or so frames of the roll. Because the video is high quality and has no problems with movement, I then cropped each frame by the same amount and have thus obtained a hundred or so sections of the roll. All I need to do now is stack them vertically and stitch them together, and I should have an image of the entire roll. The amount by which they overlap each other should be fairly homogenous as the roll was moving at a steady, machine controlled speed. In other words, it would be a bit like compiling the moving end credits at the end of a movie into one large, long image file.
I know how to do this the laborious way - create a canvas of appropriate size, import all the frames into layers and manually move them - but I was wondering if there was a much quicker and easier way.
I know the panorama feature can be used for photo stitching but I'm not sure if it could be used for this purpose - certainly, it isn't able to automatically stitch any of the frames together when I've tried it though I'm probably not using it correctly.
Any help would be much appreciated.
I have recently finished making a recording (in HD) of a player piano roll being played - for those who haven't seen one of these before, it's a long roll of paper with bars denoting the notes the piano plays.
I have used Photoshop to create pictures every 5 or so frames of the roll. Because the video is high quality and has no problems with movement, I then cropped each frame by the same amount and have thus obtained a hundred or so sections of the roll. All I need to do now is stack them vertically and stitch them together, and I should have an image of the entire roll. The amount by which they overlap each other should be fairly homogenous as the roll was moving at a steady, machine controlled speed. In other words, it would be a bit like compiling the moving end credits at the end of a movie into one large, long image file.
I know how to do this the laborious way - create a canvas of appropriate size, import all the frames into layers and manually move them - but I was wondering if there was a much quicker and easier way.
I know the panorama feature can be used for photo stitching but I'm not sure if it could be used for this purpose - certainly, it isn't able to automatically stitch any of the frames together when I've tried it though I'm probably not using it correctly.
Any help would be much appreciated.
