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Superimpose Coins To Identify Fake

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 Posted 06/17/2010  05:09 am Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add Zarboy to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
I have been playing around with this free software that allows you to import various pictures and add them on top of each other in layers, It allows you to make transparent any layer so you can virtually half see through the top coin. This enables you to set the level of transparency of the pic with a slider and then match the top and bottom coin to each other.
I would like to know, would this be a simple method of trying to identify a fake from a pic, seeing you have a clear pic of an original, or are there too many variables at play here to be able to make such a conclusion?
Has somebody tried this before?
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 Posted 06/17/2010  10:27 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add hhbkiddo to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
wow... what kind of software is this?
have never tried this, but would love to do it.
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 Posted 06/18/2010  12:32 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Zarboy to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Hi, hhbkiddo, it is called Picture Merge Genius V2.8.1. found on the web.
I downloaded it for free.
Seems that it has a trial period you can use it on for personel use.
Not the greatest, maybe some better ones out there, I will still look and play around with this, However the one drawback I found now is that the pic must be perfectly aligned on the axis to match, So one can pick up Die rotating errors too.
You can do side by side as well as all the normal basic editing features.
The trial version adds words to the pic.
Here is a low resolution(Bad) picture of a 1894 ZAR pound I merged and offset it slighly so one can see the transparent top pic.I now align it on top and play with the slider to look at both coins.

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