Photographic editing is the process of reworking an original photo, either produced by film or digital, to create the artistic vision of the photographer.
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Are there any free but comparable alternatives to Lightroom?
Does anyone have any recommendations for free software that provides the key features of Lightroom in one package? The main things I am looking for are:
RAW photo editing
Library management
Multiple ...
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Is there a software to automatically crop a scan of multiple images?
I want to digitize my old family albums using a scanner and there are lots of photos in them. Thus far, my method has been to scan 4 images at a time and then manually cropping them in a simple editor ...
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How can I get accurate photo colors on a laptop screen?
My editing mainly involves these things:
Adjusting the colors, white balance , brightness (slightly , to get that subtle combination)
Cropping of the images.
I have recently bought a laptop and I ...
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Multiple photos of my pregnant wife - how to make something pretty out of them?
I'm by no means a photographer — this is my first time here and my (actually, my wife's) camera is 4 year old point and shoot.
I have taken photos of my wife throughout pregnancy (every week). I'd ...
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How necessary is accurate masking while editing an image?
I'm editing an image of a bronze statue of a horse and rider shot against the sky. The image is excessively blue of course and I want to mask out the statue so I can edit this spearately from the sky. ...
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How to compare RAW photos quickly?
It's not uncommon for me to return from a hike or outing and have 500+ images to "sift" before getting started on post processing.
Is there a better way to compare 5-10 photos of the same image ...
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Is Adobe Photoshop worth the money?
I am starting to invest a little more money into my photography business. I've gone from a hobbyist to being asked to take professional shots, so I have the lights and other equipment. I'm upgrading ...
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Advice on composition and editing of the following picture [closed]
I'm new to photography (as in I just borrowed my first DSLR 2 days ago), I'm in the "read something new and go apply it in the field" phase.
Yesterday walking home from work, I saw an interesting ...
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How can I reproduce this effect I created?
Below is a photo I took outside my house. I was messing around in Photoshop with different effects, and really like the outcome (bottom image). The problem is I don't remember everything I did to it. ...
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Which image viewers and editors for the Mac are able to handle really large files?
Are there any editors or viewers (other than Photoshop CSx) for MacOS that can handle files larger than 30000x30000 pixels?
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How to choose a good external monitor for photo editing
I have a 13 inch macbook pro and its about the only computer I own. I'm very much into photography these days and the small 13" screen somehow doesn't feel adequate to get a real feel of the photos. ...
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What should I consider for cropping aspect ratios?
The question What things should one take into account when looking at cropping a photo? asks about factors that affect composition during cropping.
I'm interested in a very specific sub-set of this, ...
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Is there a desktop application for easy photo effects, like Camera+ for the iPhone?
I'm searching a desktop equivalent of the Camera+ iPhone app. The app Camera+ has predefined effects which can be added to images. Basically, all I want is a desktop application which is able to ...
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How do I remove the blue glow that surrounds the windows in my photograph?
Here is a picture. How do I remove the blue glow that surrounds the windows in the top right corner?
Here's a second example:
Not sure if this information is any use, but the picture was taken ...
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How does one get these HDR effects?
While I'm not a big fan of HDR images that hase been pushed over-the-top, I must admit that most of the images found on this Flickr site strike a good balance between very vivid colors and a "natural" ...
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Should I save an image as png, jpeg or bmp?
If I edit an image file using some application like Gimp, Photoshop or MSPaint, while saving I will be asked to select the required file-format. There are different formats available, the common ones ...
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How do I achieve the color tone effect in this sample photo in Photoshop?
In post-processing, how do i achieve a high dynamic range, but low local contrast, monotone (but not necessarily grayscale) effect for photos? An example would be this "li river" shot, which has a ...
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What open source software for auto-alignment of photographs?
Do you know any open source tool to automatically align images, similar to the auto align feature in Photoshop?
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Good budget display for photo editing?
I need a computer screen for editing photos (and playing games, but that's another story). Maximum price is around 200$. Sizewise 21-22" would be nice.
Thanks in advance,
-christian
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Are “Windows Photo Viewer” rotations lossless?
Can I rotate lossily compressed photos that I view in Windows Photo Viewer without worrying about losing even more information to compression?
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What should be considered for employee photos to put on company's website?
I work in the entertainment industry and am looking to produce friendly looking images of our employees (sales managers, customer support people, and so on) to put on our company's website.
What ...
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Taking/Editing personal photos
I am new to this group. I am just a beginner in photography. I would like to take some personal photographs (especially of kids). Kindly give your suggestions/tips for making it good. Best way of ...
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How can one determine the ideal resampling algorithm for a given type of image?
Was reading this question and got to thinking. How exactly can you determine what the best resampling solution is? I have a concept, albeit somewhat vague, of what the basic methods do.
Are there ...
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Quality difference in editing NEF (Nikon Electronic Format) on Capture NX2 vs other software
I'm a new Nikon D90 user, and i was shooting jpeg till now. I'm planning to start shooting raw from now.
What i've heard is that Nikon's camera profile is dynamically generated according to selected ...
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Why do photos look best without any sharpening?
Maybe it's a subjective question, but most of the time my photos look best when I leave the Sharpening slider of Lightroom in a value close or equal to zero.
Which are the benefits of digital ...
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How to watermark a folder of photographs?
1) I dont know how to write a watermark, like a copyright notice, on a photo.
2) I have a folder of photos which I wish to watermark with the same watermark.
How should I write a watermark on a ...
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Image processing & editing: what is an “unmanipulated” image?
What is considered an "unmanipulated" image? As defined by photo.net:
Unmanipulated
a single uninterrupted exposure
cropping to taste
common adjustments to the entire image, e.g., ...
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Can the effects of a polarizer be replicated in post-processing?
According to my knowledge Polarizing filters are mainly used to make sky appear more bluish in the day sunlight which gives more dramatic effect to your pictures.
I don't have polarizing filters yet ...
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What are the best practices for taking pictures of a canvas?
Please share your experience about:
Lighting
Objectives
Setup
Colorimetry
Photo-Editing
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Post-processing to remove background reflections on bald heads
I've done a series of chroma key shots of some co-workers for our website and generally everything came out great, except one of our guys is bald and, well, the green is reflecting onto his head. So, ...
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What should I consider when designing my physical environment for photo editing?
I am in the process of building a controlled environment in which to edit photos. Other questions have addressed the gamut, the monitor and color calibration, but for the most accurate display of ...
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Which program you use to process pics? [closed]
Just wondering which photography programs do you use and why?
1) Adobe Creative Suit 5
2) Adobe Elements 9
3) Adobe Lightroom
4) Serif PhotoPlus x4
any other programs that i have missed out
any ...
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Software to auto correct lens distortion based on photo
A photo contains digital information about the make of the camera the focal length,etc. Does any software use this information and auto correct the lens distortion in the photo. I know that Photoshop ...
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Has anyone used Alien Skin Bokeh?
I was wondering if anyone has had experience with using the Alien Skin Bokeh application. Is it worthwhile, or it gimmicky? Thanks!
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How do you mark a photo as complete and done with edits in Aperture?
I love Apple Aperture, but it seems to be missing a very important function I strive for. I want to be able to lock a photo, meaning once locked I can no longer make changes to that photo.
In ...
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Photo editor to automatically detect image face and plant another image on top
I have created a video and exported it as individual photos. I currently have around 200 of them. I am looking for an editing tool that will automatically detect the face in each image and apply an ...
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What should I look for in a display meant for photo editing? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Monitor for photo processing
After reading answers to this question "Why do my photos look better on an iMac"
I am wondering what should I be looking for when choosing a ...
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Why do my photos look better on an iMac?
I've been given a long term loan of a 27" iMac. Looking at my photos on flickr and iphoto, they look, eh, just better, they seem to pop more than they did on the other PCs. Why is that? The other ...
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How many photos should I keep?
When I started with digital photography, I used to keep a copy of ALL the photos I took on a backup drive, "just in case". As the years have gone by, I have become more ruthless, permanently deleting ...
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What software would help me make an image square (rather than off-kilter)?
I need a program that will square an out-of-square photo. For some images, I can just rotate, but even then getting the scene precisely level can be tedious. It'd be nice to do it automatically. For ...
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Is there any method to transfer edits made in Lightroom to Aperture or vice versa?
I am always on the fence between Lightroom and Aperture, but I am also thinking about the future, when new software shows up. Is there any way to export edits made in one of the programs and import it ...
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Quick Motion Capture
I frequently take pictures for our Ping Pong activity, but I am a newbie at photography.
My pictures are mostly result like the following(the ball is blurry).
So I have few questions:
Does this ...
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What things should one take into account when looking at cropping a photo?
When looking at cropping a photo:
How do you decide whether to crop it or not (for starters)?
What things should you take into account - both practical and artistic?
I guess that this question is ...
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Printing out a photo taken in Landscape, in Portrait
I have a selection of photos on my PC that were taken in Landscape, but I want to make Portrait. The reason for this is so they can fit Portrait slots in a multi picture frame. I have chosen these ...
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How can I edit pictures of people that have vitiligo?
It's a question about photo editing : What would be a trick to reduce the visibility of the white stains of the skin due to "vitiligo" (Vitiligo is a strange illness(?) that make the skin been totally ...
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Stitching star map images together [closed]
Is there a way I can stitch the star maps found here together to make a really large one? I've opened the PDF's in gimp, saved them as PNGs, and have tried to change the perspective of each so that ...
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How can I link two layer masks together in Photoshop?
I'm trying to apply two adjustment layers to a parts of a photo in Adobe Photoshop.
The adjustment layers are masked to the same section of the photo; so I have to copy the contents of one layer mask ...
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Free Batch Photo Watermaker?
I want to place a small logo in the bottom of about 100 images at onces.
Is there a cool, free and easy program I can download where I can do this?
I basically want to place a signature watermark in ...
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Can anyone recommend a good open-source photo management platforms for power users?
Short version of the question:
Does anyone know of any good open-source photo management/editing suites, a la Aperture or Lightroom?
I'd want it to run on MacOS X, by the way, though options that ...
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Resize to the photo.stackexchange.com header photo size with Lightroom
I want to submit a photo to the photo.stackoverflow.com header thread (like here). They ask for a specific image size (375x210). Is there an easy way to resize and crop an image to this size using ...
