Montage Generator
I’ve been slaving away a little bit over the past few days. A little here, a little there. All of it done to make a simple image out of many. I posted a glimpse into what I was trying to achieve a few days ago. Since some of my readers expressed some interest in the program, I started changing it to be used by anyone. Here is a preview of the program itself:
Behind the sceens, I have been having difficulty determining the average color of an image. I made a breakthrough yesterday and got it working with color. Today I spent a good amount of time getting the average color for very large images at a very fast pace.
In the end, I learned about some methods that are available to me to bypass the GDI+ library. I found a really good tutorial for working with those bits and got some samples working. This helped speed up the processing of the thumbnail images that I had, but very large images were still taking too long. Instead I went ahead got 1024 pixels evenly spread accross the image. The end result was still very good color matching at a fast pace.
I hope to have a little program available tomarrow for you to try out. If you want to prepare for the beta test, make sure you have all of your images available in one folder. Also, you may want to go out and find some colorful things to photograph. I found that I lacked some color in my portfolio.
Tags: Montage, Software, Photography, Programming, Graphics, Beta