Perspective Matching for the same subject on different shoots

[Aaron Cass]

I have a client who I have done two shoots for of the same subject, an updated renovation project for an art museum.  They are asking me to take the new photos and align them to perfectly match the perspective and angle of the old photos I took.  I am not sure how to begin this, my intuition tells me the perspective tool, but if its a 3 point perspective interior shot, would that actually work?  The attached shots are the first pair that I am working on, but I think also the most difficult.

[h_d]

Hi @Aaron Cass and welcome.

I think this is possible. With nothing open in Affinity Photo, go to File and New Stack...

Click Add, select both images and leave the default settings in the Stack dialog as they are:

Click OK, wait for it to process.

You'll now get an Affinity Photo document with a Live Stack Group. Click the x with the wavy line over it and set to Median.

Right-click on the Live Stack Group and choose Ungroup (or cmd-shift-G on a Mac).

This will give you two separate aligned layers, one with the old view, one with the new.

You'll need to crop the document to remove the blank canvas behind - I suspect the client won't notice the trimming - and you should now be able to export the two layers as individual images.

Really hope this helps, no doubt others will have better ideas.

H 

 

 

Edited July 9, 2021 by h_d
Forum software distorted one image when I scaled it. Corrected the distortion.

[Aaron Cass]

This is great, saved hours off my total edit time, thank you.

[h_d]

Glad it works for you! 😀

[Aaron Cass]

For sure.  Now I just need to figure I'd there's a hack to quickly match white balance.