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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;red_spork, post: 2673094, member: 74282&quot;][USER=75525]@rrdenarius[/USER] if you want to take a shot at it yourself, there&#039;s a fairly easy way to overlay two images with transparency in the free photo editor <a href="https://www.gimp.org/downloads/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.gimp.org/downloads/" rel="nofollow">GIMP</a>(GNU Image Manipulation Program). Here&#039;s a quick writeup of how I do it. This is how I verify die matches and even make animations like some I&#039;ve previously posted</p><p><br /></p><p>So if you&#039;re only using one coin, open the coin&#039;s photo and using the &quot;Select&quot; tool, select one side of the coin. Hit ctrl+X to &quot;cut&quot; the selected region, or ctrl+C to copy it(i.e. if you&#039;re checking for a rotated double strike so comparing obverse to obverse):</p><p>[ATTACH=full]595693[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Step 2: Hit ctrl+V to &quot;paste&quot; the selected region, then use the move tool(the one with the + sign) to move the second image over top of the first one</p><p>[ATTACH=full]595695[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Step 3: Make a layer with the pasted image by right clicking and clicking &quot;To new layer&quot;:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]595696[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Step 4: Left-click the new layer to select it, then using the &quot;opacity&quot; slider above the layer stack or the little arrows on the right side of it, play with the transparency. I find it helpful to move it back and forth while comparing details.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]595697[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Step 6: Move(using the same move tool used before) and rotate(using the tool that looks like this [ATTACH=full]595704[/ATTACH] ) the top layer to try and get the desired orientation.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]595698[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Step 7(Optional): Scale the image up and down if need be. Probably not needed in your case but sometimes needed for doing die comparisons where you are working with images of different sizes. You can do this in either percent or pixels, both have their uses:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]595702[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Using these techniques and saving images at each step of opacity(i.e. 5, 10, 15, 20, etc.) and then using GIMP&#039;s GIF export capability you can make some pretty cool comparison images like the one below. I can do a howto on this if you&#039;re interested at some point as well:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]595703[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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