Question about picture taking

I've seen several pics people have posted with an overlay of the obverse/reverse. How is this done? Is there a special program with this option?

 

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Do you have any examples of such images (ie a link to a post/thread)?

 

http://lincolncentresource.net/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=65206&d=1353984222

 

Ah, well they probably used Adobe Photoshop (costs money) or the Gnu Image Manipulation Program (free) for that. Take two images (obverse and reverse) and apply a transparency layer to one of the images. Then you just overlap the image layers and it should give you this effect.

 

WOW, kbaby, that is a recent post over at the other site! You are quick.

 

I wanted to do this to my rotation die but I'm not that bright when it comes to computers. LOL

 

Me neither. I keep it simple.

 

If you provide two images (obverse and reverse) of the coin showing the rotation accurately, I could probably overlap them for you.

Take a picture of one side parallel to the bottom of the picture, then flip it over and take a picture of the other side so that the rotation is visible. Doesn't matter if the coin is upside down, I can invert it.

But there's another challenge in making sure that the coin is photographed at the same distance and angle so it's not obvious they're two images overlapped.

 

Here they are. Thanks for doing this. Let me know if I need to retake them.

 

Those are perfect pictures. Nice job.

Is this what you were looking for?

 

I downloaded the program and made this pic

Thank you! :yes: But does this show the 175 degree rotation? Wouldn't the reverse have to be flipped?

 

Ah sorry, I didn't notice the 180 degree writing on the flip. I will fix.

 

How about this?

 

Again...thank you, thank you, thank you. I appreciate the referral to the pic program. :hail:

 

Are you sure you don't want the way GreatWalrus had it the first time?

 

In the first pic: When the coin is flipped over the ONE CENT would be towards the bottom.

My coin: when flipped over the ONE CENT is on the top. So it needed to be changed.

 

OK. I must be seeing things wrong.

 

Several members use the FREE PhotoScape program for manipulating their coin images.

green18's tutorial >>>> http://www.cointalk.com/t175157/#post1181633

 

If you have Photoshop the images can be easily manipulated. Just rotate the images to the desired angle and change the opacity.