Edit and Merge Help for Novice

[Lucas H]

Some of you may recognize my handle.  I never took great pictures, but I had a system to crop them and hen merge the two images together.  1) its been a year since I've suspended collecting so I've forgot a lot.  2) my computer was stolen, and whatever program I used to edit, and a second program to merge the images are now gone.


Well, I'm back to it now, but despite spending an hour with preloaded software, I can't find something to crop the images.  Once I get that done, I need software to merge the obverse and reverse.  I am not tech savvy, and I need recommendations for the most basic software to crop and stitch images.  I'm currently running windows 8.

Any recommendations is greatly appreciated. 

[stairman]

Windows 8 comes with Paint.

If you can't find it, type - mspaint in the search box on the your start screen.

[areich]

The easiest way is IrfanView. I've described the process many times over the years, so I'll just link to this post:

https://www.forumancientcoins.com/board/index.php?topic=86193.msg537746#msg537746

This method is not very good for irregular coins but it is good for coins taken without a tripod of some kind, i.e. where obverse and reverse may be of a completely different size.

[Jay GT4]

What areich said...or you can just keep emailing me 

[areich]

By 'irregular' I mean coins that are very un-round.