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<p>[QUOTE="TIF, post: 3315197, member: 56859"]I take whichever coin of the pair has the clearest/sharpest devices and in Photoshop Elements reduce it to black and white, erase the white, and then superimposed it on the other coin. Some adjusting of size and rotation is always required. Sometimes I have to skew the image a bit to compensate for different angles of photography. </p><p><br /></p><p>Once the overlay looks properly positioned, save the picture of the overlay and then hide the overlay and save the underlying coin. There are many free online animated gif makers and I load the two images to one of them, adjust the speed, and save the result <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />. I've done dozens of them now so the whole process is pretty fast-- takes no more than 10 minutes, usually.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="TIF, post: 3315197, member: 56859"]I take whichever coin of the pair has the clearest/sharpest devices and in Photoshop Elements reduce it to black and white, erase the white, and then superimposed it on the other coin. Some adjusting of size and rotation is always required. Sometimes I have to skew the image a bit to compensate for different angles of photography. Once the overlay looks properly positioned, save the picture of the overlay and then hide the overlay and save the underlying coin. There are many free online animated gif makers and I load the two images to one of them, adjust the speed, and save the result :). I've done dozens of them now so the whole process is pretty fast-- takes no more than 10 minutes, usually.[/QUOTE]
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