Questions tagged [post-processing]
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 can I make the milky way more apparent in my photos?
I was using 6400 ISO with a f2.8, 28 mill lens with a .46 adaptor on a canon m50 for about 15" for this photo. I tried a 1.8 50 mill, 28 mill w/o adaptor, longer exposure, shorter exposure, ...
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How can I remove blown-out sun glare reflected from a sign?
I've been asked to fix up the banner in this photo to remove the glare. I've played around with some of the answers I've found on the internet already, but haven't had any luck. Does anyone have any ...
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PNG files in photography workflow
I shoot Fujifilm and like the builtin film sims. Capture One, does a good job at reproducing them, but I find sometimes Fuji JPEGs better, particularly when some proprietary features (e.g Color Chrome ...
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What type of editing is necessary to achieve this type of watch photo?
The first photo is mine and the rest are thewatchbox.com photos which I'm trying to replicate. Their photos have deeper colors and pop more. Mine seems to have a grey tone to it. Anything I can do pre ...
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Is there solution for dynamic masking in Photoshop?
I'd like to achieve a "dynamic" masking workflow where one layer is masked based on another greyscale layer or group which I can actively edit and see the final results instantly with the ...
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What caused this splotchy pattern in my Portra 400 Scans? (Epson V600)
I recently started using a Fuji GW490 with Portra 400 film. Having got the film developed, some of the areas out of focus (or smooth gradient areas) appear to have a 'splotchy' pattern of lighter dots ...
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How can I pause the image processing in Topaz Gigapixel AI?
I use Topaz Gigapixel AI for image postprocessing. It can take a while to process a fair amount of images. How can I pause the image processing in Topaz Gigapixel AI?
If I click on "Cancel ...
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How does one create a glowy/halation effect in post?
Newbie at post processing here. I stumbled across this photographer who has these really soft glowy auras around his light sources (see below). I believe he shoots digital and does all this in post (...
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Are award winning landscape images edited?
I am on Flickr and 500px and also exploring award winning photographer's shots. They are beautiful, but I always wonder how much they edit their images? Can an image straight out from camera win an ...
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How do you achieve this soft/glowing low-contrast black and white look?
Watched La Haine (4k version) the other day and was captivated by how the British Film Institute gave the film a much lower contrast soft look in comparison to Criterion's hard contrast look. I know ...
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How do I take a stereoscopic photo to view with Google Cardboard without buying two DSLRs?
I just got some vr cups and tried out the Cardboard Camera app, but the quality is pretty poor, and it's really intended for panoramas. If you have created stereoscopic (NOT panoramic) images for ...
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How to create a more professional looking watch photo?
I reached out here 2 years ago when I was using a lightbox for my watch photography and have come a long way (I hope). After some advice I received, I started using 2 strobe lights on either side of ...
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What's the biggest difference between these two photos of large animals?
The first photo (Gorilla) is one I took, whereas the second photo was taken by a more serious (not sure if professional) photographer.
The second photo is clearly better but I'm not sure what the ...
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What is the best way to auto crop bulk images?
I need to scan a large volume of book covers and even though the scanner (HP) most of the time scans/auto-sizes, many are left with white/grey space on the sides.
What is the best way I can automate ...
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Difference Between Exposure, Brightness, and Brilliance Settings
On the iPhone, the built in photo lighting adjustments includes exposure, brightness, and brilliance. They are all slightly varied settings, but it's hard to really tell what's exactly going on. What ...
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How are the levels and curves tools related?
I started to use levels and curves tools quite recently and now I mostly use the second one. Mostly this is due to the fact that I understand the underlied mathematics of curves better than levels. My ...
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Why do my photos look less punchy in Laptop than camera when both are set to sRGB color space? Why is there a change in photos at all?
I use canon m50 set to RAW to click pictures, they look good on the LCD of the camera but when imported to laptop (Predator Helios 300), it looks bland and less punchy. Even though the reality was ...
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Why do I have poor image quality on my Sony a99 at high iso?
I've just purchased a Sony A99, the first version, and I'm disappointed to find the photos are very noisy at high ISO, even as low as 800 or 1000. Is this typical for this camera? Is there a way to ...
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Can I post-process this out of focus image?
There was a small snake hiding in the grass. I pointed my camera, but I zoomed too much. When I pressed the button to adjust the focus, the autofocus complained because it was out of range. I tried ...
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How to convincingly add color to jet black eyes
Where I'm from, a large fraction of the population have jet/pitch black eyes with no "texture" to them, or a very dark brown.
In cosplay photography (my field), models would simulate ...
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Simple function to simulate different shutter speed / exposure by changing RGB values of image
What mathematical function can I apply to each pixel of an image to simulate an increase in shutter duration of a camera?
E.g. Let's say I have an image shot at 1/60s shutter speed. What function can ...
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How to achieve this "faded" "magazine-like" effect?
I really like the effect that this photo has but i don't know how to achieve it. Probably done with photoshop? It almost looks like it belongs on an old magazine.
The effect is kind of over exposed ...
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How to create diagonal blurring and smoothing effect?
How is the diagonal blurring and smoothing effect in this photograph achieved? I know it was taken on an iPhone (by photographer Karen Axelrad) with a shutter delay app. What post process creates such ...
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How to edit my pictures to get this look?
I’m a wedding photographer and there is this beautiful creamy sort of dull look on some pictures I saw. I’ve been practicing and practicing to get the same look but I have not been able to. Could I ...
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Do you know a lightroom vintage preset for portraits?
That's the portrait whose vintage atmosphere I'd like to simulate in my "normal" portraits.
Do you know a default or a famous (and available on the web) preset which provides similar ...
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How do I get vibrant red tones in film simulation/presets?
I'm currently working on recreating a film type aesthetic for a preset. However, I'm having trouble getting the reds right. I love the very vibrant reds in certain film stocks, so I'm trying to ...
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Background replacement where Subject is leaned against the greenscreen and photographed at an angle?
I work at a small town photo studio as a photographer and my boss recently came up to me to ask for advice on a decision he needs to make regarding the portrait picture service we offer. Basically, ...
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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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Do the 3 main Topaz apps really do different things?
(As a preamble, I am not saying anything like Topaz is dishonest, or I feel ripped off)
Watching YouTube videos I have now seen more than once seen people say they like to first use Topaz Denoise, ...
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Google Earth Imagery
Would anyone know the best way to analyze terrain photography taken using Google Earth? I'm doing independent archaeological research in Peru and have found some interesting sites but they are very ...
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What’s this post-processing effect?
I am very intrigued by this photo. Can anyone shed some light into how this effect could be achieved?
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How can I avoid grid noise / read noise
I have read a bit about this subject (Read Noise) and to be honest I rather shoot at ISO 100 for the finest detail and maintain the scene as I see it. Example .. I shot a fishing pier after sunset ...
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How to save Darktable edits as a file?
Darktable is a non-destructive photo editor that exports to jpeg, png and .xcf (whatever that is, but seems to be the Gimp file format), but doesn't save a workfile containing all the individual ...
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Could this photo have been photoshopped?
I recently came across this photo that someone claimed to have taken on a Fuji brand camera. They claim that it’s a result of double exposure of their singular dog, but this doesn’t seem like double ...
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How to make a layer fade to transparent?
I have two layers of the same image. The first layer underneath is the original, while the other on top of it is a copy of the original, but with some applied effect or filter.
I would like to make ...
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Can photos taken with high ISO be fixed?
Please see the the attach photos. Our wedding photographer shot all of our pictures in shutter priority mode and ISO 6400. They are grainy, poor .
Is there ANY way to fix them?
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What's the difference between vignetting and pinhole?
Sometimes people say that a lens has bad vignetting but it looks very similar to the effect of pinhole (darkened edges).
What's the difference?
If someone asked to have a vignetting effect (in PP) ...
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When is it better to use HDR rather than just pulling extremes from a RAW file?
When I shoot in raw instead of jpeg, I can bring out the darks and suppress the lights very easily for pretty much every picture I shoot when I edit in Lightroom. Since HDR is meant to capture detail ...
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Delivering retouched photos to passerby participants of photo booth?
This question is more about distributing photos.
I'm going to work at pop-up photos booth at an event. I'm going to use my own camera and maybe participants' smartphones should they ask me.
The booth ...
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Batch processing scanned negatives to remove white border
I have had several hundred old negatives scanned by a local company. I am happy with the quality, but have found they are using a flatbed scanner to scan each strip, and then manually cropping each ...
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Can you use Lightroom to edit files directly on disk?
I have a large collection of photos that are contained in sub-folders, for a project.
My question is if there is a way in Lightroom to edit files directly to disk, without having to re-export again, ...
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How do I give my images this vintage travel photo effect?
Pictures like this (and I know this is an already-beautiful rainforest) remind me of how a place looks when you imagine it in your head. They have a kind of magical, dreamy touch while also being ...
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What advantages do 16 bit depth photos have over 8 bit photos?
Someone said that 16 bit photos can sell for more money than 8 bit photos. But doesn't that depend on the camera used: Anyone can convert an 8 bit file to have 16 bit, which isn't authentic processing....
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color correcting scans
I got an Epson ff-680w but can't find any way to color correct the scans using a calibrated profile. My understanding is that this is the main thing to look out for when trying to scan in archive ...
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How can I make product photos with solid-colored backgrounds?
I'm trying to achieve an effect so the part of the product photo is filled with a solid color background, something similar to:
Currently I have two ideas on how to implement this:
Shoot a product ...
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How to correct partial overpolarisation in sky?
I have this nice Lappland Autumn morning panorama, except the polariser effect is obviously too big just to the right of the small top on the left.
I would like to try to apply a kind of mask with a ...
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What is the best techinque to smooth skin?
I am toning a senior portrait right now and am wondering what the best skin smoothing technique is. Think glamor. I know how to take care of blemishes, but I'm looking to enhance that silky skin look.
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Is it possible to scale up an image to increase the the pixel density?
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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Do professionals all edit their pictures heavily?
I am wondering how many serious photographers do heavy editing in Photoshop after taking those pictures. Do all or most professional photographers do that? Or they just do a simple cropping and ...
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Is it common practice to apply identical processing effects to a batch of photos?
I'm trying to understand how photographers approach the task of multiple images that were all shot at the same environment/setting/event. Instead of opening each photo separate, and tweaking hue, ...
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