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I want to join two image files in Ubuntu 12.04. Is there any way I can accomplish this?

Is there any utility for joining image files, perhaps something like MS-Paint in Ubuntu?

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see also here: askubuntu.com/questions/166751/merging-two-pictures – Takkat Dec 6 '12 at 9:23

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"join two images" is a quite vague description, but I'm sure you can do what you want with Gimp. You can install it using Software Center or from the command line using

sudo apt-get install gimp

It is probably closer in functionality of Photoshop than to MSPaint though... which is a good thing.

Here's how to do it in GIMP:

  1. File > New ; create image bigger than both of your images to join combined.
  2. File > Open as Layers ; open your images.
  3. Use the Move [M] tool to arrange your images.
  4. Use the Crop [Shift+C] tool to crop everything when finished rearranging.
  5. File > Export to... to save your output file.

That's it! Instead of GIMP you can use Pinta

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Yes, I agree, it seems that for this user it will be better a GUI-based method. – Frantique Dec 6 '12 at 9:55
I voted this down because it only answered part of the question and didn't tell the poster how to join two images. Why did I lose a point for that? – Simon Hoare Dec 6 '12 at 11:43
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@SimonHoare ask a vague question and you get a vague answer :+ – Rinzwind Dec 6 '12 at 19:18
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@SimonHoare: I did not give specific instructions because, as I said, the question is too vague. You understand "joining two images" as stitching two scans of a large page into a single image; I was actually thinking about making a collage, something like removing background from a photo of a person and putting it on top of another background. Also, the question asks "Is there an utility...", not "what are specific steps to ... in program X" – Sergey Dec 6 '12 at 20:27
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I've added the steps. – Bucic Dec 6 '12 at 22:29
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You can use imagemagick to do this. (I am using it as well.)

First install it: sudo apt-get install imagemagick

After that look here for usage, you will find a lot of examples. The best is that you can use it from command line (integrate within a script for example).

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is it a GUI or command line utility? – vipin8169 Dec 6 '12 at 9:19
You can use the GUI for everything. The CLI is optional. – Simon Hoare Dec 6 '12 at 9:30
ok but how to access the GUI, when i right imagemagick in dash nothing appears – vipin8169 Dec 6 '12 at 9:36
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Imagemagick has also a kind of GUI, type display in Terminal. – Frantique Dec 6 '12 at 9:56
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Vintage thing? Imagemagick? The command line is faster and more precise like any GUI. To use gimp just for joining images? Like shooting a bird with a cannon... ;) – Frantique Dec 7 '12 at 8:21
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