How Do People Combine 2 Photos Of A Coin In 1 Picture?

Not sure Pheroow. Personally I just cut and paste using Microsoft Paint. Very basic and not fast, but does the job and gets faster with practice. Though in this one you can see the join!



However my daughter has something called 'Add Me' on her (android) phone that allows you to take one photo and superimpose another. Handy if you want two people in a photo, but there's only the two of you to take the shots! Takes the same time it would take to photograph a scene twice.

Surely there must be something similar for an iPhone?

Ah, that works fine with coins that are round. Unfortunately, made from hand made flans, none of mine really are! I have to take a large original image of the coin and use Paint to draw around it by hand. Fortunately I don't have many to do. And it means I can get images like this which would be difficult to achieve by just cutting a circle:

I do most of my image work in a free program called " Irfanview". It's mostly a viewer, but it has surprisingly powerful editing tools. For example, the "Paint Dialog" includes a tool to take any straight line in the image, & rotate the whole image so that that line is either horizontal or vertical. It has a "panorama" function where you can very quickly & easily take two photos & set them up side-by-side horizontally or vertically.

I really appreciate all the replies.
Really helpful.
Seems there really is no fast way.

Open both photos, (both cropped to the same size) make the first one canvas size 200% in horizontal width, select second image, select all copy, close, paste clipboard into first image, may have to move them around to get them evenly lined up. I use Photoshop myself, and created an action to automate much of this. But I would imagine it is the same in almost all image programs.

You could create a third image (blank twice as large as each coin photo and copy both obverse, and reverse images into it. I do this also, making the background the color I want, I also make it a bit oversized to allow for text headers to placed into it. Use that for ebay all the time as I can stay under my limit for extra photo added and avoid charges by them for auctions.

Man I wish this thread had come up a while ago. I've been cutting my coins down the middle and photographing both at the same time. I could have saved a lot on the glue I've been using to put them back together.

westcoin said


Just a bit of info in case you did not know. When making a ebay auction...you can easily post as many pictures in to the body of your listing as you want to. Much easier then trying to get a few good shots into the listing title and it does not cost you a dime. Quick way to do it is...up load your pics to a hosting website (I use photobucket). When the pictures are uploaded to Photobucket it will give you a HTML link for each picture. Now...when creating the body of your listing on ebay and you come to where you want to insert pictures...just click on the HTML button above the Font style and Font size drop downs. Scroll down to the end of your HTML listing and insert go back to Photobucket. Click on the HTML link to the right of the picture you want to insert to copy it. Go back to your listing and paste in the HTML link for the picture. Repeat this for each picture you want to insert. After you have all the pictures that you want inserted...Click on the "Standard" button next to the HTML button for your ebay listing. It will convert the HTML link into the Picture and your set. You can move the pictures as needed now by clicking and dragging them. You can also center them by highlighting them and click the Centering button. That is just he basics. There is quite a bit more you can do but I'm not a HTML Expert and I just stick with the basics. Give it a try...it will save you some money and also give the buyer nice pictures to view when looking over your listing.