Software is inherently required for digital photography, and opens up options for post-processing film as well. Questions related to the tools used for digital image editing, processing, organization, distribution, and presentation should have this tag.
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List of Adobe Lightroom resources
I'd like to make a list of Adobe Lightroom resources. Blogs, sites, tutorials,... Anything worth taking a look at.
Thanks.
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Software for creating lighting plans/diagrams?
I'd like to share lighting plans with my crew -- what software exists for creating lighting plans? What are the pros/cons to the different packages?
I've been using Microsoft Visio, but there must ...
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Is there a way to sort Lightroom images by 'edit' status?
Usually my workflow involves 'picking/flagging' photos to edit and leaving the rest alone (RAW files that is). However, sometimes I jump right in and start editing before rating/picking. In that ...
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What are the advantages of online photo editors like picnik.com?
Why do you use online photo editors like picnik.com instead of desktop software?
Note: Google have recently announced that as of April 19, 2012, picnik will be discontinued.
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Managing Aperture libraries locally and on external
I feel like I must be making this harder than it is.
I have an aperture library on my laptop. I use it to import images from my camera. But I don't have much space left on my hard drive so I want to ...
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How do pseudo or fake HDR programs like Photomatix work?
There are a few programs that can produce HDR-like results from only one input image. How do these work?
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A beginner with post processing wanting to learn [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Any good tutorials for learning how to post-process images?
Though I have been trying hands on photography for quite a while now, I want to learn post processing of ...
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What are the best apps used to process photos taken by an iPhone?
Recently, I love taking photos using my new iPhone 4S. Since I am new to this world, and there are tons of iPhone photo editing apps out there, I wonder what the best iPhone apps are for editing ...
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Can I permanently set column visibility in the Content pane of Adobe Bridge CS5?
I remove all the columns I don't want visible by right-clicking the column headers and deselecting the column from the list. But when I switch to a different directory of images all the columns are ...
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Is there any software which displays geotagging plus compass data visualizations?
I was eyeing Pentax's new GPS hotshoe accessory for geotagging photos and noticed it also includes a digital compass and will record the camera direction as well as latitude & longitude.
That got ...
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What system should I use for photo management and sharing over a LAN?
I would like to setup a local website to act as a gallery/management-system for our photos and videos. (I can run 2 servers one for videos and one for photos)
I currently have about 1.5 TB of ...
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How can I make Lightroom auto-backup to jpeg?
I have recently got an android tablet and would like to keep a copy of most of my photos from my Lightroom archive on it for showing off my work, browsing etc.
Is there any way to, preferably ...
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Why does this Aperture smart album with flags & labels contain more than it should?
I have tried to create a smart album in Aperture 3 that is based on this:
1) It is flagged
2) It has a label
I have followed the instructions in provided help documentation in Aperture 3. Searching ...
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Export options for printing with Aperture 3
I am about to get my pictures published in a magazine. I am going send the pictures to the publisher, thus not printing them myself. Therefore I am curious about how to export the pictures ...
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What program can blur a photo to show motion?
I have a picture in the woods of a path. I want to blur the woods so they look like they are being run by really fast, not just plain blurry. The best analogy I can think of is like cars look on ...
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Aperture Master files
How do I create master files in Aperture so that I can email from within that application?
Most of a photos started in iPhoto originally.
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Do the preset picture styles also affect the White Balance?
I started shooting RAW with my Canon 550D, and tried out different Picture Style settings on some of the images using the software provided by Canon (I am assuming that the Picture Style settings are ...
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What does the under/overexposure warning mean in image editing software?
We all know exposure warnings that a digital camera offers: If shows which parts are so bright or dark that there's no more distinction towards even brighter or darker areas possible. Meaning that ...
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Is it possible to sync title and description from Flickr to Lightroom?
I wonder if I can sync metadata such as title and description from Flickr to LR without using any third party software, just with built in Flickr Plugin. If so, how can I do it?
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How do I use exiftool to update Lightroom's Hierarchical Subject?
I thought this would do it:
$ exiftool -XMP:HierarchicalSubject="people|Test" Test.jpg
1 image files updated
$ exiftool -G -j -n Test.jpg | grep Test
"SourceFile": "Test.jpg",
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What exactly does Tone Curve do in Lightroom?
In simple terms, what does Tone Curve in LR actually do?. I can see the results of changing Tone Curve by playing around with it, but I don't really understand scientifically what it actually does. I ...
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What software can I use to process RAW images? [duplicate]
I took some raw images the other day and I found the lighting in some photos is very dim. I would like to enhance it as many say you have a lot of options to adjust different parameters in RAW. Which ...
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Is there a 3D lighting diagram tool?
I have tried a few tools for creating lighting diagrams. There is a good list on this question.
While these tools are pretty good, they only provide a "top view" of the scene, so vertical distances ...
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How do I find how many pictures have been taken with a Canon EOS1000d?
I have tried looking in the software that came with it, but with no luck so far. This is probably very basic... I would really value any help please.
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Is it safe from a privacy and security point of view to display identifiable EXIF data on a public web site?
Whenever I compare the exif data displayed by Flickr or the data on Lightroom (3.4), I can't avoid getting my mind blown for the simple fact that I never come to a software tool (for windows) with a ...
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Does Photoshop Elements 10 support a Dual Monitor configuration?
Does Adobe PhotoShop Elements 10 Support Dual Monitors? Bing searching only seems to provide links for how to setup dual monitors in full blown photoshop.
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How can different RAW converter programs give different results?
I've read in several places (photo mags, websites, etc.) that there are third party RAW converters around (i.e. not big name programs like PhotoShop, Lightroom, Picasa, PaintShopPro,...).
So my ...
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What free software can I use to find pictures through meta data on Linux?
I am looking for a software that allows me to find in my collection pictures that have a particular characteristic. For example pictures taken with the same lenses and similar focal length. or find ...
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How do I get started with RAW photography?
Having read about the benefits of shooting in RAW as opposed to JPEG (for example this question), I'd like to have a go with it myself. However, I'm not really sure how to go about it.
I can turn RAW ...
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How do I tile pictures in a grid?
This is a very basic question I know. But how do I tile pictures in a grid? Like, 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 ...
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What are the differences between Picasa and Lightroom, other than price?
I've heard about Adobe Lightroom before, but never really understood what's so great about it, or why you'd pay for it when you can get Picasa for free.
I know Lightroom probably has more ...
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What photography workflow software can be kept on a central server?
At my company we do a lot of photo shoots for our products, at the moment we just organize the photo per photo shoot but with this system its hard to recover a photo of a product, you have to go over ...
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What is the difference between the fill light & blacks and exposure sliders in Lightroom?
What is the difference between using Fill Light and Blacks sliders and dealing with the Exposure slider directly in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom?
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Will I miss any features of Lightroom 3 if I already have Adobe Photoshop Extended CS 5.5?
I am planning to upgrade my CS4 to CS5.5 (Design Premium) - I heard Lightroom 3 has new cool features such as new and improved noise-reduction in photos. Do you get pretty much all the features of ...
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How do I export JPEGs from Lightroom without the grey/black box around each picture?
How do I export JPEGs from Lightroom without the grey/black box around each picture?
This is really frustrating me. I know there has to be a way to do this.
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How to Calibrate a Monitor Without Hardware
The question:
What is the best way to calibrate my monitor without hardware add-ons (and preferably free)?
Some More Info:
From what I have read what seems like the best way to calibrate my ...
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What is the best program to modify the color of eyes?
What is the best of the best program which lets me change the color of the eyes in a picture.
It doesn't matter if it is a free or shareware program.
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What photo management software to use on local network with NAS and both Mac and Windows clients? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Suggestions for shared cross-platform photo management?
I am looking for photo management software that will work in the following environment:
Photos all stored in a ...
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Which program is good for modifying pictures?
I want to modify my photos so they look better but I don't know which is good and simple to use. I use a windows Vista.
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What software can I use to break an image into smaller tiles?
I have a very big image and would like to break the big images and create smaller tiles.
Any idea if I can use some software to do it?
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How to take photos with PC controlling?
I want to connect a camera to PC and take photos.
What cameras have this option? Most cameras, when connected to PC, seem to disable capturing when showing card storage?
Is there any software that ...
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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 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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What's a free alternative to SlideShowPro?
I'm looking for a free alternative to SlideShowPro for a client, preferable open source and a solution that doesn't use Flash, but rather use JavaScript with deploy similar techniques as on Flickr for ...
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Is there an HDR Equivalent of AutoStitch?
Is there a software that you give it a bunch of images and you get out a tone-mapped HDR image out of it automatically?
I mean without having to know about white-points and different tone-mapping, ...
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Is it possible to replace background of photo, preserving shadows and emitted light?
I want to take a series of photos of table lamps (some on, some off) and later superimpose them on a picture of a different table (taken at the same distance and angle). What I want to know is how ...
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Is there a script which will detect camera-shake blur? [closed]
Is there any existing script, either standalone (python, perl, etc.) or bridge/aperture plug-in that will detect blur of the type where you move the camera when taking the picture? I know this can be ...
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Is it possible to print a photo so it can be mounted on a globe?
I'd like to transform an image so that it can be mounted on a sphere. I'd like to use an image of a map (see the One Piece world map on the image), but it could be anything. Here is a kind of Family ...
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What free software can batch process HDR images?
I am looking for free software that is able to batch-process HDR images. I used a +2,-2 bracketing on my camera (so I have 3 pics taken for each position). I'm trying to create panoramic images, so I ...
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Can I open and edit a specific layer in Camera Raw?
While editing this picture, which was shot in JPEG, at one point some noise got added to the sky after I increased the saturation. I knew that the luminance noise reduction in ACR would take care of ...
