Re: Merging two images

Bob Friesenhahn schrieb:
> On Tue, 27 Oct 2009, Felix Saphir wrote:
>>
>> Probably a very simple question, but what is the correct way to merge
>> two images side by side using the Magick++-API?
> 
> There are several different ways to accomplish this with different 
> amounts of control and convenience.  It can be done via appendImages() 
> or montageImages() as defined in Magick++/STL.h.  These are the most 
> automated ways to perform the task.
> 
> It can also be done (the hard way) by creating a canvas image large 
> enough for the two images to fit, and then using the Image composite() 
> method to composite the two images in the desired locations using the 
> CopyCompositeOp composition operator.  This approach requires that you 
> do all the size and placement computations yourself.

Thank you very much, Bob,

I read the STL documentation, but decided to do it "the hard way", 
because I cannot be sure, that all images will have the same height.

Your answer confirms the approach I took, and now it works :) Turns out, 
that I assumed the first parameter "const Image &compositeImage_"  to 
composite() was the destination image, not the source. Yes, I'm rather 
new to C/C++ ...

Regards,
Felix

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