MS Research releases Group Shot for photo groups

January 17, 2006 By

This is a fun one to play with.

MSR Group Shot helps you create a perfect group photo out a series of group photos. With Group Shot you can select your favorite parts in each shot of the series and Group Shot will automatically build a composite image.

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  • http://helpdesk.wordpress.com/ Michael

    So it’s like a collage maker or is it like those crazy big computer generated collages? I still don’t understand.

  • http://helpdesk.wordpress.com/ Michael

    So it’s like a collage maker or is it like those crazy big computer generated collages? I still don’t understand.

  • Christopher Coulter

    Oh brother, how come so much of your guys heavy R&D reads and works like bad shareware? “Digital photomontage” whatever, seems like reinventing wheels Adobe and the Digital Community such long conquered.

    I try and play around, importing reasonably close image sizes, with same head shots, but nope it errors out. So I go into Paint Shop and make all images the same size, but YET I still get the “dimensions do not match. For better results, use images of the same size”. Ummm, they are EXACTLY the same, in every shape way and form, like dead on.

    I play around, finally get it to take, (even tho I changed nothing) but find that with Photo Collage, Paint Shop and Photoshop tools (and some plugins) I can whip similar (actually better) results in no time. Not sure what this research app was attempting to prove? All the brillant academia research in the world, yet all unmarketable rot, when realized as software. Irony, that.

  • Christopher Coulter

    Oh brother, how come so much of your guys heavy R&D reads and works like bad shareware? “Digital photomontage” whatever, seems like reinventing wheels Adobe and the Digital Community such long conquered.

    I try and play around, importing reasonably close image sizes, with same head shots, but nope it errors out. So I go into Paint Shop and make all images the same size, but YET I still get the “dimensions do not match. For better results, use images of the same size”. Ummm, they are EXACTLY the same, in every shape way and form, like dead on.

    I play around, finally get it to take, (even tho I changed nothing) but find that with Photo Collage, Paint Shop and Photoshop tools (and some plugins) I can whip similar (actually better) results in no time. Not sure what this research app was attempting to prove? All the brillant academia research in the world, yet all unmarketable rot, when realized as software. Irony, that.

  • Mike Ward

    Functionality aside (understandable frustration, but heck – it’s free) I thought this was pretty notable for a Microsoft product:

    “source code released under the GPL”

  • Mike Ward

    Functionality aside (understandable frustration, but heck – it’s free) I thought this was pretty notable for a Microsoft product:

    “source code released under the GPL”

  • http://www.bladam.com/ Adam

    Christopher, is there ANYTHING that Scoble writes that you don’t reply to snarkily? No, I’m serious. Anything at all? Do you truly get pleasure from posting perpetually grumpily here? I’m just amazed…

  • http://www.bladam.com/ Adam

    Christopher, is there ANYTHING that Scoble writes that you don’t reply to snarkily? No, I’m serious. Anything at all? Do you truly get pleasure from posting perpetually grumpily here? I’m just amazed…

  • Christopher Coulter

    Well, letsee, about 3.5 years of archives, in which I was a dazed Tablet PC fan, indeed a great marketing asset, winning a few large deployments, that they didn’t even know of (and seemingly couldn’t be bothered with).

    And occasionally Scoble gets it right, in taking some of the hyperbole to task from the Apple cultists, Linux and Open Source weenies, Google groupies and others of such ilk. And sometimes he’s dead right in his own internal Microsoft critical approaches, and equally in terms of praise. And sometimes he rightly defends against loony conspiracy black helicopterish theories, (Example: Steve Gil’bore’ saying Office is dead, AJAX is the all). I am not perpetually grumpy, hardly. Just Scobleisms, is like someone mowing the grass with a flamethrower, it’s dead easy to call it out. ;)

  • Christopher Coulter

    Well, letsee, about 3.5 years of archives, in which I was a dazed Tablet PC fan, indeed a great marketing asset, winning a few large deployments, that they didn’t even know of (and seemingly couldn’t be bothered with).

    And occasionally Scoble gets it right, in taking some of the hyperbole to task from the Apple cultists, Linux and Open Source weenies, Google groupies and others of such ilk. And sometimes he’s dead right in his own internal Microsoft critical approaches, and equally in terms of praise. And sometimes he rightly defends against loony conspiracy black helicopterish theories, (Example: Steve Gil’bore’ saying Office is dead, AJAX is the all). I am not perpetually grumpy, hardly. Just Scobleisms, is like someone mowing the grass with a flamethrower, it’s dead easy to call it out. ;)

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  • http://chrisgarrett.wordpress.com/ chrisgarrett

    I for one think its a great tool. A lot better than relying on my meagre photoshop skillz

  • http://chrisgarrett.wordpress.com/ chrisgarrett

    I for one think its a great tool. A lot better than relying on my meagre photoshop skillz

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