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Offline astrovienna

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Blink between images without the blink process
« on: 2018 November 02 19:23:57 »
I've seen tutorials where people drag one image on top of another, then blink them back and forth.  But I can't figure out what keys they're hitting.  IIRC, I've also seen people flip between different previews this way.  Anybody know how that's done?

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Re: Blink between images without the blink process
« Reply #1 on: 2018 November 02 19:41:30 »
I've seen tutorials where people drag one image on top of another, then blink them back and forth.  But I can't figure out what keys they're hitting.  IIRC, I've also seen people flip between different previews this way.  Anybody know how that's done?

Kevin

Once you have matched the zoom and translation (position) of two views that over each other- Ctrl-PGDN (page down).
The preview thing is by using the CTRL+right/left arrows.
(In my mind, the up/down arrows would make more sense and match the visual representation on the screen)

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Re: Blink between images without the blink process
« Reply #2 on: 2018 November 02 21:53:58 »
on OSX this is clover/apple-PGDN and clover/apple-arrows

not sure about linux.

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Re: Blink between images without the blink process
« Reply #3 on: 2018 November 02 23:21:41 »

Once you have matched the zoom and translation (position) of two views that over each other- Ctrl-PGDN (page down).
The preview thing is by using the CTRL+right/left arrows.
(In my mind, the up/down arrows would make more sense and match the visual representation on the screen)

-adam

Just an additional point: my laptop has two page down keys. Only one of them works in this way, so you have to take care to select the correct one.
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Re: Blink between images without the blink process
« Reply #4 on: 2018 November 03 03:45:54 »
I would like to add that you can not only superimpose and compare whole pictures.
Two images registered on top of each other can be compared with each other in each zoom stage by shifting the image label one above the other - assuming the same size.
It has become my habit to cut out reference images from the internet with the snip tool or via print and crop, to register them with the DynamicAlignment tool and then to compare them with my own.  So I have already learned a lot.

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Re: Blink between images without the blink process
« Reply #5 on: 2018 November 03 11:02:16 »
I've seen tutorials where people drag one image on top of another, then blink them back and forth.  But I can't figure out what keys they're hitting.  IIRC, I've also seen people flip between different previews this way.  Anybody know how that's done?

Kevin

Once you have matched the zoom and translation (position) of two views that over each other- Ctrl-PGDN (page down).
The preview thing is by using the CTRL+right/left arrows.
(In my mind, the up/down arrows would make more sense and match the visual representation on the screen)

-adam

Thanks Adam.  I saw you doing this in your TAIC video from July, but I couldn't for the life of me figure out how.

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Re: Blink between images without the blink process
« Reply #6 on: 2018 November 06 10:01:16 »
Thanks for posting this Kevin. I've also wondered about that many many times.

One thing I noticed: The Ctrl + pg dn combination will switch between the last two images selected. So, when aligning the two images to be "switched" make sure they are also the last two images that are selected.

Just FYI.

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