Sunday, November 16, 2008

InADWriMo update: Ugh

I didn't get jack done on my November writing project this week. I did collect some data for a completely different unfinished project, so I guess that's nice, but only managed to read one paper for the November project.

I did do the rest of the my figure-scrunching very early in the week, though, so at least that gets crossed off the list. There's still one figure that hasn't been scrunched because it mostly hasn't been made. I'm supposed to be making a prettified picture from some imaging data, which leads me to my question of the day:

How can Photoshop be such a complicated menu-y program, and yet contain no simple way to average two (or more) images together? Yes, I know I can layer them all and adjust the opacities. Yes, I know I can "apply image" to add two images together. But why no straightforward averaging function?

(Perhaps it exists in modern-day Creative Suite. But I am using [don't laugh] PS 7.0, and it is like a tundra. For this, at least.)

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

You can do it in Matlab...pretty simple.

Nat Blair said...

Or Igor even.

Dr. Jekyll and Mrs. Hyde said...

Yeah, I know. It's just...c'mon, why not in the program I'm going to use for adjusting the contrast, cropping, etc etc? Am lazy.