Questions tagged [photo-editing]
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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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 ...
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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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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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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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How do popular free RAW editor/converter compare to each other 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
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Able RAWer
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How to I edit a photo to have a old vintage look?
How to I edit a photo to have a old vintage look? I'm looking to achieve this sorta of vintage film like look. I'm looking for a way to achieve this without purchasing a "auto" effect program by using ...
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What are the key photography-related features from Photoshop that are missing in GIMP?
I am on a tight budget and chose to use GIMP for editing since it is free.
What important photographic post-processing features am I missing from Photoshop?
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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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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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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., color ...
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How to edit photos shot in fluorescent light
I recently shot a series of pictures (portraits and group shots) in a room with bad (fluorescent) light. I had no possibility of changing that lighting situation.
Now back at home and in Lightroom I ...
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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 are these washed-out, but bright, colors achieved?
I can't wrap my head around how the bright, washed-out colors in these images are achieved. Does anyone have an idea?
This Isn't Happiness: Closed for the Season, Salvador Cueva
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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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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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How does the Curves tool work in GIMP?
I started using GIMP recently, and came across an option called Curves under the Colors menu. What does this tool do, and how do I use it correctly?
I get some good colors if I make a graph in 'S' ...
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Free program for editing pictures
I'm looking to find a free program that allows me to edit my images.
The ones I have used so far are very limited, so if you have any ideas please let me know.
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Photoshop's color replacement tool changes to grey (instead of white) — how can I change a grey background to pure white?
I have a picture (File format: JPEG | Сolor depth: 24):
I'm using Adobe Photoshop CC (2015.5.1). I need to change background color from grey to pure white [#FFFFFF / RGB(255, 255, 255)]
Firstly, I ...
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How to do the same crop on a batch of photos?
I've got a batch of photos (an owl coughing up a pellet in case you're curious). I want to make an animated GIF out of them, but the result would be improved if they were all given an identical crop ...
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How can I automatically digitally remove shifting sensor dust speckles from a large series of photos?
While in the desert, my sensor became dusty. I was out for weeks and did not notice this until the end of my trip, so I have hundreds of photos with sensor dirt. Throughout the vacation, dust ...
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How do I get a consistent White Balance when shooting different color products?
I've attached an example photo. I can't seem to get the colors to be consistent across shots without struggling to manually tweak each image. What can I do to get a consistent White Balance?
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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 am ...
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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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Is it possible to recover original content from an edited image file?
OK possibly a random question here, but one that is relevant to the site and regarding a hot topic nowadays: privacy.
If I load an image file (in my case a PNG photocopy of a document which contains ...
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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 brighten photo taken with low light/fast shutter without worsening noise?
I'm trying to salvage a photo that was taken in low light with fast shutter speed. No matter what I do, it is always grainy. I'm interested in how to brighten the image without worsening the noise. I ...
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How to get the Milky Way bright enough without overexposing foreground objects?
I went out and captured the Milky Way and because I have a 18mm-55mm 1: f3.5 5.5 lens I had to turn the camera sideways and stitch them together in photoshop and just having to work with what I got at ...
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Can Canon DPP 4 put a watermark on a photo?
I recently downloaded Canon's DPP (Digital Photo Professional) 4. After the new UI improvements, and better algorithms that are incorporated into the new DPP 4, I thought I would give it a try and ...
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Why does AWR (Sony Raw) file curve at the edge when editing in Photoshop?
My pictures are in AWR (Sony Raw) file and I'm using FastStone Image Viewer 5.5 to view them before I begin the process of editing in Photoshop CS6. When I see the pictures from FastStone Image View, ...
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Does Photoshop 7 support RAW file format?
Does Photoshop 7 support RAW file format? Or do I need any other software for that?
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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 add a border to a JPEG photo without affecting quality?
I have a photo in JPEG format with resolution 4680x3120. I want to add a white border around this photo, turning it into a 5200x3467 photo (for printing reasons).
Clearly, I am not altering or ...
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In Lightroom 3, what is the difference between exposure and brightness?
What's the difference between adjusting a photo's exposure versus its brightness?
I created a virtual copy of a photo. The original's exposure was increased 1 stop. The other got an increase in ...
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Are there any free but comparable alternatives to Lightroom? [closed]
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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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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Photo editing: Is it ethically ok?
I am a very basic level amateur photographer. My question is "Is it ethically correct to edit photos to make my photos look good?".
I believe that the photos taken by my camera should not be touched ...
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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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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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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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What are the merits of using a particular image file format?
If I edit an image file using some application like GIMP, Photoshop or MS Paint, 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 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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How to convert JPEG to RAW in Photoshop or similar?
I am having a competition in which I have to submit images in RAW format. But I have already clicked some images with Nikon D3200 in JPEG.Is there any way to convert JPEG to RAW format in Photoshop or ...
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How do I tile pictures in a grid?
I have 6 pictures all with the exact same dimensions, and I want to tile them in a 2 row, 3 column grid. I have been searching the net all day and got lost between fancy photo collages, photo mosaics (...
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What's the name for the technique where a portrait-oriented image is filled-out to a landscape one with a scaled-up blurred version of the same image?
It is very common nowadays, specially with smartphone videos and photos. It consists of adding the same picture zoomed in the background, to turn a portrait image into a landscape one, as seen below. ...
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What ambient lighting is appropriate for a room where photos are edited and proofed/printed?
Assuming monitor(s) are correctly calibrated and print viewing is done in a viewing box with its own light source, what should the room lighting be? With no lighting at all I think most people find ...
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What are the disadvantages of focus stacking?
Taking a few landscape shots and was wondering how you would make both the front and back of the photos sharper. Came across Focus Stacking but my biggest concern right now is the quality of the photo....
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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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How to reduce large, agressive color noise?
I tried to shoot an image of Comet C/2020 F3 last night. My settings were ISO 6400, f/5.6 and Shutter speed 2 seconds at 175mm on a MFT camera.
As expected, there is a lot of noise, so I planned to ...
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Why are there two files for each picture?
I'm new to the DSLR world and I can't seem to figure out why I have two copies of all of my pictures when I go to load them on my computer. Is there a way to turn this off so I don't have to go ...
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