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grow.  Take the 2-minute tour ×  I have taken a series of noisy
photos without a tripod.  I want one less noisy version, so I
need average them down to one photo.  But details of the
individual images do not exactly match, so that naive attempt
will lead to a blurred/ghosted image, so I need to
move/rotate[/scale/whatever] all images to match the first and
then average them?  What is this technique called?    1.
Adjusting   2. Stabilisation   3. Synchronising   4. Converging
5. Deshaking   6. some other term?   share|improve this question
5 Answers 5  up vote 9 down vote accepted  The answer you are
looking for is Image Aligning.  When you merge images for HDR on
Photoshop, there is an optional 'Automatically Align Images'.
The same option exist in several cameras with built-in HDR
capabilities.  It is also sometimes called Image Registration
but that term is overloaded as it has other