I wrote a Node.js app that creates images that I want to stitch. I want to create one image with over 10,000 charts. My original solution was to create images each with over 200 charts each and stitch those together. That results in 50 images being stitched.
I now wish to create one chart per image, resulting in over 10,000 images, and stitch those together. When I drag and drop the files into Fiji to create a montage, it opens each individual one. It takes way to long to open the entire collection.
Is there a way I can create a montage of thousands of images and stitch everything into a single file in Fiji that doesn't require every image being opened?
You say that you want to stitch your image, which implies your goal is to find where these images overlay from a specific channel, but when you say montage, it makes it seem like what you really want to do is concatenate the images into a stack or align them into a montage. To me it appears that you have a program which will output some form of stack which has 200 planes, and then concatenate them together or align them as a montage.
In principle, you will have to open every image, but opening them with batch mode on and running the operations by macro will reduce time by not rendering the viewable image. It would not be possible to run ImageJ/FIJI operations on an image without opening it, as this is beyond something like renaming or deleting a file.
If you really meant that you want to stitch them, use the stitching plugin function for Grid/Collection stitching, and set the overlap to zero. This requires having your images be in a single folder, and in your case splitting them into individual images instead of sets of 200, with each file labeled with an increasing number (i.e. file_name_1.tif, file_name_2.tif, where each file_name is the same and only the number changes). If you have stacks of 200 and are happy to keep them that way in the created montage, the file naming convention needs to be the same. You should select the Fuse and Display option to get the resulting image. The output will be a merged, larger image.
When you are trying to somehow stitch the images and overlay the stacks, scripting the commands to run it in batch mode would also work.
For stitching I highly recommend the MIST plugin. For batch opening files, try dragging and dropping the folder containing the images rather than the images themselves. Alternatively, go through File -> Import -> Image Sequence.
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This is my first question here, I tried to search for something like this, but couldn't find much.
So, I got about 200 old PSDS that have an outdated version of some images (Blurry and in low resolution), but they have text layers, and some retouching layers. And I managed to scan and get way better quality images, but I need to paste them one by one into the PSDS so I can align them and recycle the text and retouching layers, so I was wondering if there's a way to sorta automate the image copy-paste.
The file names are something like this:
old_psd_0001.psd, old_psd_0002.psd, old_psd_0003.psd...
new_png_0001.png, new_png_0002.png, new_png_0003.png...
I'm trying to do a copy pasting image script, all the other aligning and cropping work is automated with actions.
Thanks to anyone able to help.
I often spend hours bringing pictures into PowerPoint templates one by one and trying to customize the way a presentation whose behavior is very different.
If there were a way to randomly select an image from all of the images on a different slide or excel file or folder and have them appear based on the probable weight assigned to them, it would be a huge time saver.
I've seen various methods of having a random object appear, and some of them don't even require a macro, but importing the images is always very time consuming. If anyone knows of a better/faster way to link a folder with a group of images or something along these lines to an object that is randomized, please help.
Importantly, showing a random image from a batch group without customizing the way each image is brought in is the hard part. Adding weight helps, but it could be done by duplicating important images repeatedly.
i have almost 5k different logos and also have 5k different images, i want to add them up, is there any tool or way to do this.
I have seen tool which add one logo to all images, but it don't work with my scenario, i need a tool or way which allow me to multiple logos to add on multiple files, for example
image 1 + logo1.jpg= image and logo1.jpg
image 2 + logo2.jpg= image and logo2.jpg
and soo one.
is there way to do this work quickly instead of editing every pic manually
You could achieve this by creating actions and then using batch actions on folders containing the files. If you sort all the images you want to have logo1 into their own folder, you can use a batch action to add the logo to every image in the folder and then save the new image as a jpg in a different folder.
Here is a short youtube video explaining batch actions, and here is a much longer, more detailed video that's officially from Adobe. If you don't like videos, this page explains the process with graphics.
In short, here's what I would do:
Sort all the images you want to have logo 1 into a folder.
Open logo 1.
Select all and copy the logo.
With your logo still on the clipboard, open the first image.
Go to Windows --> Actions
Hit the little paper peeling icon to create a new action
Hit the record button to record your action and name it something you can remember later.
Paste your logo, and place it where you want it.
Go to Layers -> Flatten Image
Stop recording (or you might record how you save, but this doesn't always work. If you do save, don't save over your original, rename it!)
Go to File -> Automate -> Batch, and choose the action you just saved, and select the folder you want to save the new logo-ified images into.
Carefully set all the save options
Click Run!
If you get prompted to choose color options on every save, you might want to redo the action so it includes (or does not include) "save as" options.
This is the short version of the answer. I'm sure there are ways to script it, too, but this may be easier if you're not familiar with scripting.
I found there is a lot of tools available for breaking the Big PDF files into smaller one by splitting the original PDF file PAGE WISE.for example, if i have a 10 page PDF Document,then we can able to break the original pdf file into 10 pieces in page wise splitting.
But i want similar kind of tool that breaks the PDF file smaller than the Page wise splitting.That means,i need to split the PDF page into different documents based on any parameter like paragraph,section,element...
for example,
If my PDF file having 2 pages with 10 paragraphs then i would like to split the pdf file into 10 separate Pdf file based on paragraph parameter...
Also, I strongly believe pdf does not contain any structure like Open XML.But i also Suspecting
How the tools can able to break the pdf files in to small pdf files by splitting page wise? What kind of mechanism they are using for page wise splitting PDF File?
So, Is there any way to do my work? Please give me your valuable suggestion on this?
PDF is a vector based document description language. It's page based so in a way every page is independent from the next one. Splitting page wise is therefore pretty easy. Contrary to a raster image where you can extract small subsets independently in a pdf you have to render the whole page to know how a small subset looks like.
Say you have a Page (black) which contains a complex shaped object (here it is a line but it could be any text, shape, image, etc.) and you want to extract a subset (red). You would have to first find all the objects that produce visible output in the region of interest. Then you would have to modify them so they are rendered correctly (in this case calculate the green points from the blue points while preserving the shape of the object).
An easier approach would be to include the whole page and clip the viewing area to the dimensions of the region.
You could do this with pdfjam. Check the --trim/--offset/--delta command in conjunction with a custom paper size (Example 6,7 on the pdfjam website). You would still have to somehow calculate the coordinates of the region of interest though.
I need about 100 icons inside my application. Would it be logical to have one large image file with all the icons and then somehow split it up into individual NSImage objects? Is there a way to run some code at build time to regenerate the individual icons?
Assuming you are indeed using the icons separately, I think it would be more logical to keep them separated, for a couple of reasons:
It might seem more organized to reduce the total number of files, but having one big file with all your icons isn't a terribly organized method of storing them, either. Xcode can deal fine with a large number of icon files.
If you're using version control, it complicates the management of the history a bit. As it stands now, if you need to change an icon, you just change that icon, and you can keep a history of changes to that icon. If the icons are in one big file, then any time you change any icon, that file will show up in the history, so it'll be hard to isolate what changes to what icons you made.
It's probably easier to edit a single icon than a bunch of icons smashed together into one file.
Why write a build script or runtime code to slice up the icons if you don't have to?
100 icons? Woot? Okay,
No it would not be logical. It is possible to split them at runtime, not at build time. I would simply use the easy way and add all icons as different files.