{"id":104,"date":"2025-07-06T11:10:59","date_gmt":"2025-07-06T18:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kerneltrick.com\/?p=104"},"modified":"2025-07-06T11:10:59","modified_gmt":"2025-07-06T18:10:59","slug":"a-circuit-image-blending-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kerneltrick.com\/?p=104","title":{"rendered":"A circuit image blending tool"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another old project that someone might find useful.<\/p>\n

This is a tool I wrote to help create schematics from manufactured PCB’s.<\/p>\n

Basically it will take a top and bottom image of a circuit board and re-map the images to the same scale and orientation so that it’s easier to create a schematic.<\/p>\n

Here is basic usage example.<\/p>\n

When the program loads, you’re presented with 3 tabs. On the first tab ‘Load Image A’ this button will open a file dialog to pick an image. The supported image types are: bmp, gif, jpeg,png, tga and webp.<\/p>\n

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When the Image is loaded, you can flip or rotate the image to get the orientation that’s preferred.\u00a0 There is also a rectangle with 4 control points. Move these control points cover the pcb area of interest.<\/p>\n

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The same process is used for ‘image B’. Notice in the example that ‘Flip Y’ checkbox is checked so that both the A and B images have a matching orientation.<\/p>\n

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Once both images are loaded, the ‘Blend’ tab will be available, There is a slider at the top which will adjust the blend of the 2 images front and back.<\/p>\n

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There are also some hot keys to control the blending without using the mouse.<\/p>\n

A,S,D with set the blending levels to 25%, 50% and 75%.
\nZ,X,C will adjust the blending levels to 0%,50%,100%.<\/p>\n

The blend tab also has a primitive drawing tool for making markers on the blended image.<\/p>\n

The program and included Blitzmax source code can download from HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Another old project that someone might find useful. This is a tool I wrote to help create schematics from manufactured PCB’s. Basically it will take a top and bottom image of a circuit board and re-map the images to the same scale and orientation so that it’s easier to create a schematic. Here is basic… <\/p>\n

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