I need to stitch 1024 JPEG files together

Question

I have 1024 256x256 JPEG files called Column_Row.jpg (replace words with coordinates on 32x32 grid). I need to stitch them into one big image. What is the best software I could use to do that?

Answer 1

I do this routinely using the imagemagik tools.

I can't remember the exact syntax off the top of my head, i think it's the "montage" tool you use.

What you then do is loop over each column to create rows, so for example of windows:

for %a in (column_*.jpg) do montage -a -out row_X.jpg

where "row_X" is replaced with "row_1", "row_2" and so on.

then once you have all your rows

for %a in (row_*.jpg) do montage -a -h -out finished.jpg

or something like that (As I say it's been a while, since I typed it by hand)

I'm not at my usual PC at the moment, so I can't look at the batch files I normally use to give you the exact syntax, but the image magik site for the montage tool should help you:

http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/montage/

http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?t=11320

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2853334/glueing-tile-images-together-using-imagemagicks-montage-command

Answer 2

It sounds like Shawty's answer will do what you need, but in the event that your images were not appropriately numbered, you could use a tool like AutoStitch: http://matthewalunbrown.com/autostitch/autostitch.html

It will analyse the images and stitch them together in to one large image, cropping and joining as it goes to make one large image with the contents of all the smaller images.

I use it when I take large panorama shots with my camera, then want to stitch them all together to make one image for print.