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This particular logo is easy, because:
It's only three colors
It's relatively simple vector art
there's a simple outline around the shapes
The goal is reconstruction, not preservation of a masterpiece
That means you don't need to light it very well and you don't need to worry too much about noise. Take a photograph straight down, and notice any sources ...
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Since asking this question, and answering my own question I've faced the same problem so many times that I decided to write a website that solves it in a nice free way. You just upload a photo and then you can just download a jpeg ready to print at 6"x4".
www.oddprints.com
Output photo:
Sorry if this is a bit spammy, but it is a free website, no need ...
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If you have an android phone with geolocation and compass, Google nightsky is outstanding. Or if you're on your computer http://www.google.com/sky/ google sky. I'm sure you could find better software for the task, but if you're just trying to get the milky way or a constellation or two, it will do the trick.
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Are you familiar with The Photographer's Ephemeris?
http://photoephemeris.com/
That will help decide where the sun and moon will be at a given time at a specific location. I use that to help me during an initial scouting session.
Truly stunning landscapes are usually created with a mixture of knowledge, preparedness, and patience. The best weather ...
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Lightroom is a great app for organisation and workflow and from version 3 you can set up your Flickr, Smugmug/Facebook, whatever sharing accounts, and post directly from within Lightroom once you're happy with your photo :-)
EDIT: Lightroom features website -- has a little video on there of publishing photos to external service. Flickr would also give you ...
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Camera360 for sure!
Reasons :
Effect like LOMO, Retro Effect, Dreamlike Effect, Art of Black and White, Back to 1839 and Night Enhancement will make your photo more beautiful.
The amazing HDR effect is even better than iPhone HDR.
Unique Funny Mode: Effects like Surrealistic B&W Paining, Vertical/Horizontal Left Symmetry, Vertical/ Horizontal Right ...
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You could use the majority of software that handles barrel distortion, and just either setup a profile and save/reuse that profile, or reuse the settings by syncing the settings. An example of this software would be PTLens, but many solutions exist.
Since this is a fixed focal length lens, you don't need to worry about changing the settings for each image - ...
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My original recommendation was RedCart. I was thinking that they did have a non-flash based option for mobile users. Unfortunately at this time they do not. They have promised that as an option with or right after version 4, which is slated for February 2013. Since that is still down the road, you might want to hold off. I still really like RedCart and ...
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There are a number of free and open source tools that will do this, for Linux, Mac, or Windows. If you just need something very simple, jhead should do. Put it in a loop and output the result to one or more text files.
If you need more sophisticated options, you can step up to one of Exiv2 or ExifTool. These can read and write all sorts of metadata, ...
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There is a wonderful and hugely popular, open source, cross platform based software called Stellarium which is available at http://www.stellarium.org/. It is free and has tons of features. You can track almost every celestial object with it.
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Answering my own question on behalf of a friend who showed me Geotag. This is a Java software that can show you any number of pictures on a map in a browser winder.
No need to upload anything, it fetches the maps from Google Maps and uses a local http server to display them. So, it is one possibility that matches what I am looking for.
It can show the ...
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Picasa has a Geo-Tag feature that allows you to use Google Earth to write EXIF location data. You get to see some small picture thumbnails on the Google Earth's map - it's nice to see photos you've taken while traveling to a certain area.
I believe this is possible with pictures already containing EXIF location data - check out this link.
This does not ...
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Manfrotto has one for (obviously) its own line-up of products. It is pretty sophisticated but any subjective decisions are set by their own programmers.
Some other manufacturers have a simple search based on weight and height (among some others maybe) requirements which you have to figure out yourself.
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I have just found a useful site that provides a comparison of how tags and other metadata are handled in across a range of popular applications
http://www.happydigitalphotos.com/photo-management-software
Its basically what I was looking for (re tagging methods), although it is a bit dated (seems to have been written in 2010) and hence is not based on most ...
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I've used iPhoto, Picasa, Adobe Bridge, and Lightroom, I can't speak on the others.
By far my favourite and most useful program to use is Lightroom. I have used it since Lightroom 1.3 and have upgraded each level to Lightroom 4. It's basically a cross between Adobe Bridge and Photoshop with the ease of use of iPhoto and Picasa.
Especially with ...
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Personally, I use Adobe Lightroom for my cataloging. It's not free, but it does an excellent job of allowing alterations to meta data, letting you specify ratings and categories, even letting you make many non-destructive edits to the images (including applying edits in bulk). It is well within your price range.
It also has a lot of great output options ...
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On the cheap end, you could probably get by with something as simple as PowerPoint. On the more expensive side, a video editing package is going to do the best job. You could take your pick of just about any video editing package available. Even Windows Movie Maker would probably get the job done.
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I would use a program use as COmbineZ; normally used for improving the depth of field of a macro shot it should be able to layer your images together well.
see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CombineZ for links to the freeware software.
IF that fails, which might depends on the algorithm (it may try and align the images rather than just stacking) then the ...
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There are quite a few aspects to this one...
Keeping the photo's in their current folders isn't a big problem if you're intending to search by metadata.
Metadata management is one of those things that there's no silver bullet right now (and because of different workflows may never be). Also I'd be wary of your desire to keep metadata in another file as in ...
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To get a good photo to work with you would want:
A long focal length (i.e. taken as far up as possible, not a wide angle closeup).
As close as possible from right above.
As even lighting as possible.
Normally a good light source (i.e. not fluorescent light) is needed to get a full range of colour, but in this case it's not so important as the logo only ...
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You basically have two options: (hint: I think option 2 is far superior, but not nearly as fun)
Option 1 - technically difficult, time consuming and requires equipment and some expertise
The camera must be parallel to the floor, above the center of the logo, you will need a fancy tripod that can hold the camera steady pointing strait down without it seeing ...
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I would not want to trust a profound programming blackbox to recommend me what tripod is right for me. There are just too many variables beyond lens and camera body:
What and where do you shoot: A tripod used for studio shots with flash will ideally be quite different than one used for nature photography with the same body/lens
Your shooting technique: Do ...
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There is a bunch of real time apps for the iPhone and iPad. I played with an app a few months ago which used the camera with the location services and it was projecting constellations and stars directly onto the image captured by the video camera in real time. I think the app is SkyView. (there is a free version of that too) Pretty cool but it was ...
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Have a look at Webshots. You can decide if you want to make a photo/album personal or public. I haven't used if for a while, but am considering starting using it again.
It also has other features that may be of interest (pro photos to view or buy, e-cards etc, and a desktop/screensaver software that you can link to your account)
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I don't know what software is out there to do anything automatically. But if the location data is stored as EXIF data, with 'exif' you could write some scripts to find photos taken at a certain location (e.g. at your house), or near a location (within say .01 or .02 degrees) or in a city. I currently use exif to analyze my favorite focal lengths, with e.g. ...
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You should be able to use any photo or printing program to print several on the same page. Windows printing will do this as well. If you're on a Mac, you should be able to use Preview to print several JPEGs opened in the same window. Just make sure that scaling and anything other size related settings are set so that your images print at the size they should ...
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PicsPlay Pro is an amazing photo editing app for phones.
Some of the main reasons I went with this app:
Curve Editing - All / Red / Green / Blue / Black & White
White Balance
Histogram Editing - Much like Levels editing in Photoshop
And of course it has all the other basic editing that most phone apps have; hue/saturation, brightness/contrast ...
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Check out Streamzoo. (I am a founder.)
There is a review here: Meet The Best Alternative To Instagram – Streamzoo [iPhone & Android], and you can get it from the Android Market.
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