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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Can I convert raw files to TIFFs via the command line using Apple's converting engine?
I want to convert from the command line a bunch of RAW files into tiffs using the same converting engine as Apple's Aperture or Preview (in order to get the same results as from these applications).
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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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How can I change colour of reflection/shadows to blue, to match the water?
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I have taken and edited the above shot in Lightroom to give an evening effect. I would like to remove the green reflection of trees on the lake to darker blue or the color of ...
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How do I speed up Apple Aperture?
For my photo post processing software, currently Aperture is my program of choice. However it is extremely slow with my computer. I consider myself having a decent piece of hardware. I'm using the ...
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Blending several images together
I hope I'm on the correct StackExchange forum.
I have several equal images (17 at the moment). I want to blend/overlap all the images. So I can see a combination of all the air bubbles in total.
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How to achieve Japanese-painting like effect with Gimp?
In a recent blog post Trey Ratcliff shares the following picture:
About the processing he says:
To achieve it [...], you can duplicate the layer then do some extreme sharpening and a black and ...
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How can I export 16 bit tiffs with Mac OSX' imageing engine sips?
I'm playing around with Apple sips command. When I export a Canon raw file (CR2) to tiff via
sips -s format tiff -out img.tiff img.cr2
the result is an 8-bit tiff, although the CR2 source is ...
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Why does my Lightroom library now show two photos with the same file number?
My dilemma is about editing a photo in the Develop mode in Lightroom 4. Why does the library now show two photos with the same file number, the original and the edited photo. The edited photo, with ...
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Which free editing program has an preset 'Relief' adjustment?
Before my XP went walk-about (and the hard drive went with it) I was using a free editing program that allowed a "one-touch" (well, actually it was three clicks — but who's counting...) adjustment to ...
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How were these portrait photos edited to get this look?
3 photos, and I realize perhaps 3 different techniques, but all of them are producing some sort of "unreal" look I don't know how to describe and a skin texture in the 3rd photo (how3.jpg) that I ...
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How to create a photo mosaic?
Hi i am new to photography, i have a pic of my friend's which i would like to make it special. I would like to combine his 20 to 30 pics to form his face or any other nice pic of his. What software ...
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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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Best order of doing things when editing scanned photos in Photoshop?
What (in your opinion) is the optimum order of doing the following to a scanned image in PhotoShop?
Cropping
Manually adjust Levels (RGB and density)
Manually adjust Curves
Manually adjust ...
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How to reduce size of a jpeg image in Photoshop?
I'm trying to reduce the size of my photo. I have tried all solutions given on this website.
My current image size is 159 KB and I have to reduce to 10 KB with 5L x 3.6w.
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Is it possible to have exposure decrease programmatically when batch processing in Adobe Camera Raw?
I am editing a batch of about 1000 photos in Camera Raw. There are certain settings like contrast or clarity that will be the same for all of them. But with the Exposure, I would like to have the ...
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What is the best free RAW editor/converter on Windows?
I'm looking for a free RAW editor/converter on Windows. Can you tell me some strong/weak points of them comparing with Capture NX and/or Adobe Photoshop Elements?
RawTherapee
PhotoFiltre
Able RAWer
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Comparison list of tagging & editing methods in photo management software
I am looking around for a photo management solution. I understand that some photo managers store tags in the photo themselves whilst some use an application specific database. I also understand that ...
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How can I repair missed focus in a valuable photo?
The subject in my photo isn't properly focused. I can't take it again because this activity documentation photo can't be redone.
I've tried many solutions such as using shadow/highlight in Photoshop, ...
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How do I process photos on a Mac so they look right on Windows computers?
Apple computers use another color profile different than the one used by Windows. Therefore, images are displayed differently in a Mac computer than in a Windows machine.
Processing a picture in ...
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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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Is there a way to make a photo look good for the web but not for small prints?
I work at a professional photography studio and was given the task of creating a photograph that would look good on social media websites. At the same time, the image cannot look good for printing of ...
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How much of a good fashion or surreal photo is post-production?
I tend to like photos that look dramatic or otherworldly (particularly when capturing things that may actually be fairly mundane). Aside from obvious things like air-brushing or photo-manipulations ...
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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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Where lays the border between correcting photo and creating a new one using PC?
There are two physical different steps on creating the photo:
Actual shooting (including preparing to shooting)
Post processing on PC (all what starts after downloading the photo to PC)
On the ...
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How do I change appearance of canvas background in photoshop workspace?
I seem to have changed the default setting in photoshop somehow which means that the background is always white, instead of grey. I don't mean the background layer of the image, I mean the area of the ...
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How to get a full-screen preview of a cropped area in RawTherapee?
I've used the crop tool in RawTheraee to crop a raw image:
Is there a way to full-screen preview the cropped section prior to exporting?
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Best Unsharp Mask settings after resizing photos for imagemagick
I'm resizing photos uploaded to a photography gallery and have thus applied an unsharp mask to attempt to preserve the photos original sharpness. The settings I use are:
radius: 0
sigma: 0.5
amount: ...
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How to identify photoshop-edited files
If I have saved an image in JPG format after doing some edits, is there a way to identify that it is edited with Photoshop?
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Faded & Vintage Film Presets for Photoshop Elements 11
I would like to purchase a Faded / Vintage Film presets progam for my Photoshop Elements 11 to recreate the wash-out film look of the 1970-80s. But unforunately, the few programs that I know all ...
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Program to remove thin strip from inner part of image
At present I have a 2x2 grid of 4 photo images. These 4 images are separated by 30 pixel wide white strips, in the middle, one horizontal, one vertical.
I would like to reduce the white separation ...
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How to remove timestamp text from photos?
I have a bunch of digital photographs on which someone has typed (or auto-inserted using some utility) timestamps using a huge ugly font (with opaque background to boot!) that's obscuring a big strip ...
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Should I use EC when all details are captured?
I took this picture after looking at the histogram from my camera. Supposedly the details of the main object at the center was not clipped, but it is surely too dark to see it clearly. So i used ...
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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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fill missing part of recovered-repaired jpg image with same image thumbnail
I've lost files during file migration from one disk to another, and now I'm recovering them, and I have lots of JPG image with bottom of image missing but with a thumbnail.
Question:
Is there a ...
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Am I permanently altering my NEF/raw files if I save changes in Nikon ViewNX 2?
When editing the NEF (Nikon raw files) with Nikon's ViewNX 2 software, after modifying things like exposure and white balance, I have the ability to save the NEF file or "Save As" a new filename. ...
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What are the rules for editing a photo?
I just got a comment that I must edit my photo. God know how many hours I have spent editing my photos. Thus I was a little bit surprised. It was explained that there are certain rules when doing ...
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Are there written guides or rules of thumb for setting color saturation, clarity, vibrance, etc. in post-processing (or in general)?
This isn't another "how do I get a picture to look like such-and-such-link-inserted-here in LR" question. There's a saturation (no pun intended) of these questions here. Interesting, but not general ...
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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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What noise removal tools work best, and why?
Can anyone recommend some good noise removal tools, free and commercial? Should support RAW and JPEG. Are certain tools better than others in particular situations? Do some integrate better with other ...
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Content-Aware option not showing on photoshop cs3
I want to remove unwanted images from my main image using photoshop CSS3. I found content-aware technique to deal with issue. However when I am opening fill option from edit menu its not showing ...
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How do I judge correct White Balance?
Which photo has the more correct White Balance? (see below link) For me the second is much better than the first. My understanding is that the R+G+B histogram needs to be more balanced as possible. Is ...
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What laptop specs are important for intensive image editing work?
How important is the following in purchasing a laptop that will be used for image editing:
processor speed
amount of RAM
integrated vs. dedicated graphics card
HD speed (SSD; or 5400/7200/10000 rpm)
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How to start learning photo editing? What are the first few photo editing websites/books someone should read? [closed]
I'm a beginners trying to learn photo editing. How do I start learning photo editing? What are the first few photo editing websites/books someone should read?
Added: I meant Photo editing as ...
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How can I edit photos on an Android tablet without needing to copy them to the device?
I am looking for an app running on Android tablets for basic photo touch up such as red-eye, color and contrast adjustments. Nothing fancy there, but I could not find an app allowing to edit a file ...
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What's the best approach when taking a picture of an item that's going to have the background cropped off?
I know my way around Photoshop, so simply enough, I would like to know how can I make things easier on myself when taking the picture of an item that's gonna have the background deleted. What should I ...
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What is the best way to remove texture from a scanned textured photo paper?
I have a bunch of scanned old family photos where the photo paper has a texture. Unfortunately, the texture of the photo scans quite well. What is the best way to remove the texture? (Photoshop CS5)
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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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Are there any general rules to prepare a picture for print?
Today I went to the photo shop to print some pictures. Before that, I checked them and they seemed ok. (Not under/overexposed, good contrast). However, when I got them printed, some of them were ...
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Photo Editing/Effects
I just started Photo Editing (Noob). Can anyone help me get photo effect like link1 from image "link2". Any help would be greatly appreciated.
LINK 1 ...
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Which tools are good for creating panoramas/stitching multiple photos?
Can anyone recommend some good tools for creating panoramas from multiple photos.
(Free and commercial)
Personally I use either Windows and Ubuntu, but I'm not fussy, suggestions for other platforms ...
