Post-processing is the process (and art) of adjusting a previously-captured image to obtain a desired look. It encompasses everything from simple whole-image adjustments to detailed per-pixel touch-up work.
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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 apply settings used on one RAW to a set of RAW images in Canon Digital Photo Professional?
I am using Canon Digital Photo Professional. Please don't give me solutions in photoshop or lightroom as I am not interested in buying this software now.
What I intend to do is to adjust the ...
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What is toning, in black and white photography?
I have been told that the "lips" in this photograph need "strong tones".
Now, what is toning and how to achieve that in black and white photography?
I used GIMP and all I did here was to select ...
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What is the best way to clean studio backgrounds in Photoshop?
Studio backgrounds can be a pain in the but. They get wrinkled, they're hard to roll in and out and they get easily dirty.
Does anybody know a good technique (or tutorial) how to clean them in ...
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How to get a miniature effect on pictures without special equipment?
I was browsing Behance and came upon these pictures:
http://www.behance.net/gallery/The-Little-Things/402879
I was wondering how he got this miniature style effect?
I'm guessing a Gaussian Blur on a ...
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What are the specific uses of different ways to convert to black-and-white?
This tutorial explains six ways to convert an image to monochrome:
The "standard" grayscale conversion operation.
The desaturate operation.
Decomposing to RGB and using any one of the channels.
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Should I use a single denoising method with aggressive settings, or combine different methods?
I shot some pictures at night, at ISO 3200, and they are of course extremely noisy. But I want to keep them, and make them as decently looking as I can.
I use Darktable as a workflow software, and ...
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How to postprocess photos with lots of blue haze?
I was in Northern Italy, and made some pictures there (with emphasis on sentimental value, not trying to do big art). Something I noticed both in real life and on the pictures is that the blue haze of ...
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How do I eliminate green-screen bounce?
I've got a vehicle green-screen room. Generally speaking, it works great. However, on candy-apple red there is a noticeable problem in post production:
See the green outline on the trunk and hood ...
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How can I create a grayscale with color highlighting effect in Lightroom?
Highlighting certain area with color, leaving the rest grayscaled — what is the name of this effect in photography?
What is the most precise way to achieve this effect in Lightroom?
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Does rotating a photo count as a destructive editing?
I usually rotate all my jpg photos (using Windows Photo Viewer) after removing them from my camera's card. Is this correct? Am I losing quality for rotating them? Should I just leave them as they are ...
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Is there a one-click technique to create a “better” JPEG from RAW than the in-camera JPEG?
When looking around at HDR and Tone Mapping, and looking at the examples on the Photomatix homepage, I see examples that read:
Result after applying the Tone Mapping tool (Original RAW file
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How can I overlay many frames from a video into a single merged image?
I am looking for a simple way to turn a video into one image. I want each frame to be added to together to create one (over exposed) image. The point of this is I am trying to convert a video of me ...
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How do you get the style of color seen in these “urban decay” pictures?
I have been trying to get this "look" and I am not even sure what to call it.
Here is an example:
And another:
Are they just doing selective color filtering, or is there something else that I am ...
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What's the professional approach to removing noise from a cell phone pic?
I have a cell phone photo that's a bit grainy and slightly blurry. It's not the out-of-focus type of blur, but the blur brought on when edges run together due to lack of sharpness.
I have Adobe ...
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Why does my Adobe Lightroom temporarily pixelate photos after every change?
I'm using Adobe Lightroom 3.0. I go to develop mode and everything is fine (the photo is sharp). After I do any change (saturation, fill light, sharpness... whatever) the photo automatically gets ...
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How were these “Mysterious Dutch Light” photos made?
I stumbled on this photo on flickr. The complete "The mysterious Dutch light" set has a strange feeling about it. I'm not even sure if it is a photograph or painting.
So my questions, what is so ...
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What is the Orton Effect and how can I apply it to digital photographs?
I have heard of a photographic effect known as the 'Orton Effect'.
Can anyone tell me what the effect is, what its history is and how I would create it in both film and on my digital SLR?
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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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Is there a “How do they do that?” site for learning image post-processing techniques by examples?
I often see really excellent photographs that seem to have been adjusted in photoshop or something like that. This includes even pictures that seem to be from someone's vacation or travel.
Is there a ...
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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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Should I use in-camera noise reduction, or is it better to leave that for desktop-based post-production? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is in-camera high-ISO noise reduction worthwhile?
Should this be done using image processing software like Photoshop or the built in function of the camera ?
It seems a ...
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Should I use “exposure compensation” setting while shooting?
Should this be done using image processing software like Photoshop or with the camera's built–in function?
It seems to me a program like Photoshop could use much better algorithm than what is ...
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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 to properly sign a photograph?
Not sure if it should be posted here since it has to do a lot with graphic design, but since it's too attached to a photograph (in most cases) and we are all photographers who want to sign our own ...
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Is there a way in Photoshop to apply a mask to a single Smart Filter?
I like using Smart Filters because they let me adjust things later, and because I get a mask to control where the filters are applied.
The problem is that this mask applies to all the smart filters ...
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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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Is pincushion or barrel distortion really all that bad in a lens?
Given that software can pretty trivially fix pincushion and barrel distortion patterns if you're shooting in RAW (Lightroom did the right thing just by knowing what lens I used with the given EXIF ...
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Can the “Dust Delete Data” function on Canon DSLR be used with Lightroom?
My camera is 6 months old and I noticed there is quite a few spots on the sensor (especially when taking HDR shots of bright scenes or the sky) The hand blower does not lift these particles off the ...
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How to create the equivalent of an Adjustment Layer in an editor that does not support it?
As a user of GIMP I tried to understand what Photoshop's Adjustment Layers are, without actually using PS. My understanding is that GIMP does not yet support AL (is this correct?).
So, trying to ...
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How should I use Lightroom for processing for photo lab prints?
I'm a recent Lightroom convert, and I've come to appreciate its built-in workflow for library management and developing. I'm still stymied by printing, however, because I want to use an online lab ...
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How can I fix the color of blue photos using settings from “good” photos?
Imagine how photos with a bad blue filter look. I can recolor those pictures with the color filters from any image manipulation program like gimp.
Now my question is: can I "grab" the right settings ...
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How can I approximate 'soft focus' digitally?
In a previous question about soft lenses, it was suggested that much of the current practices regarding soft focus involve selectively soft focusing certain parts of the image and mattdm suggests its ...
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How can I reproduce the camera-internal postprocessing?
I just started playing around with raw images. When opening the raw image in Raw Therapee, it looks completely different than the JPEG produced by the camera:
(left is raw, right is JPEG)
I ...
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What sort of color correction and effects are used in this photo?
I've seen plenty of photos like this before and I've always liked them. They're usually warmer colours and they seem to have a bit of a haze to them.
Photo by David Guenther
What sort of post ...
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What settings should be kept in mind while shooting a jpeg photo in order for it to be edited later on?
Canon PowerShot SX210 IS doesn't support RAW format, so I don't have a choice w.r.t shooting in Jpeg format.
Do we have some special camera settings that we shouldn't touch or should set in some ...
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How do I achieve a vintage photo effect in Photoshop?
How can I achieve this vintage color tone in Photoshop?
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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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Is it possible to increase the pixel density of an image?
I have taken a picture whose resolution is less. I can resize the image easily (i.e I can scale to higher resolution) but the image quality goes for a toss, which is true because the image might not ...
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What is the best way to handle overexposed sky in post-processing?
I'm new at photography and I have taken some pictures where the subjects in the foreground are exposed correctly but the sky is very overexposed. What is the best way to handle it in post production?
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What lighting and pre- or post-processing is required for a high key image?
The definition of high key photographs is thoroughly answered by @mattdm. What I understood is that a light toned subject is the most important requirement to take a high key image. However, it seems ...
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How do I get this “Washed out” effect for street photography?
I was browsing an unrelated question here and noticed this photo:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sparth/5730541580/lightbox/
I've seen countless street-photography shots with this kind of color effect ...
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How do I combine multiple exposures for action shots?
I'd like to create one of those "stacked" action shot images where multiple exposures are combined to show the subject moving across a static background. Here's an example I found on Flickr (by ...
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What kind of color treatment is applied to these Sean Flanigan photos?
Sean Flanigan is probably one of my favorite photographers. His photos has an extremely unique feel to them, at least to me they are unique. Whenever I try to describe his photos, words fail me. I ...
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Is the bokeh in this picture naturally occurring, or added in post-processing?
Click here for picture
I feel like the blur is not natural. Looks like it was Gaussian Blurred with the couple as the center. What do you guys think?
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How do I get this fashion photograph effect?
I found an interesting fashion photograph and I want to recreate the effect.
I know for a fact that the pictures are taken in complete darkness using a Canon XSi, the built-in flash, and some ...
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Which is the single most used technique in post-processing by professional photographers? [closed]
I am always in awe looking at pictures by professionals — mainly their nature photos — and the colors they always seem to get in their pictures. Reading a few posts here I realized that ...
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Are RAW files safe from changes?
While I'm shooting my pictures as RAWs (or actually JPEG+RAW) for a while, I haven't really have ever worked with the RAW files so far.
When opening the RAW files, and playing with the options, I'm ...
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How do I blur the subjects other than main one in photoshop?
I have some photos in which I have a lot of subjects, but I would like a single person to be the main focus.
Now I would like to blur other people and subjects in that photo using Adobe Photoshop.
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In-Camera Bracketing vs Exposure Correction in DPP
Is there any difference in images produced using in-camera bracketing (-2,0,+2) and images produced using exposure correction (-2,0,+2) from RAW images in DPP? I'll be traveling tomorrow to a place ...
