Questions tagged [software-recommendation]
Questions to help in choosing the most appropriate software for certain type of work. Note that these are usually off-topic here.
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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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What's the easiest way to create passport-sized prints?
I need to print some passport-sized photos for visa applications. They each need to be 35mm x 45mm.
Is there an easy way to take a single photo of my face and create a new jpeg file from it that I ...
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Is there a more affordable program than Lightroom? [closed]
I recently purchased a Sony Alpha a33 and was told Lightroom was the only way to go for photo editing. My photography right now is purely of our brand new baby right now, so I won't be profiting from ...
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Software to find sharpest image in sequence?
I took a batch of images with slight camera shake.
What software is there to automatically find the sharpest image in the batch?
What I already found is Imatest's findsharp, but they write: "Find ...
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What can you do with embedded GPS locally?
The Sony Alpha SLT-A55 made its way to me and it has a built-in GPS. Each photo is marked with its GPS coordinates, elevation and orientation. I am aware that if I upload such a photo to Picasa or ...
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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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Panorama macro possible?
I have never really tried to do much stitching. Is there any software to create a panorama for a macro pic?
Could very well be a pipe dream, but worth asking!
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How can I display a ghost image of the last photo in Live View on a Canon camera?
I am looking for a way to make stop video - but this is really a photography question.
I am looking for a way to:
Shoot 1st photograph
When I prepare second, see the 1st with alpha/transparency to ...
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What software can replace Apple Aperture?
Apple has announced the end of development for photo editing software Aperture. What photo organizing software can replace it? I am familiar with Adobe Lightroom.
I need to process raw files and an ...
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What are some alternatives if you don't have a flip screen in your camera?
I have a dslr camera which does not have a flip screen. So in situations where i want to take a shot from very low angle, It is very hard, compared to the flip screen available situation. Is there any ...
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Dealing with exposure time during sports photography
I am very new to photography and trying to improve my skills (I don't even know if I have creativity required for photography).
I captured some shots of sports. The link to my album (just 6 pics) is ...
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How can I speed up the process of setting up lights in an unfamiliar studio or location?
I am currently in the situation that I often struggle for 30 to 60 minutes before a shooting to set up my lights. Few studios and locations I use offer mannequins and I don't have an assistant at most ...
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Software for editing EXIF data
Can someone please recommend software that enables editing for exposure mode EXIF data?
I have tried with Picasa, but it doesn't support editing of this specific property.
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Defish GoPro images consistently
I am looking into using a GoPro camera for sail curvature measurements. For this the distorted fish-eye image needs to be transformed into a rectilinear image consistently.
I know solutions exist ...
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Post-processing software - which one and why?
I have been a Photoshop user for several years now, a Lightroom one for over six months, I discovered darktable and today I first heard about RawTherapee.
From what I understand, Lightroom is (or at ...
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Are there image stacking (astrophotography) options on MacOS that don't involve running a Windows VM?
I am starting in astrophotography. I want to create a "non star trail/track" result similar to what you would get with software like Deep Star Stacker in Windows, but I use MacOS.
Do I have any ...
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Best Android photo editing apps? [closed]
What are the best photo editing applications for an Android camera phone such as the Nexus One, Droid, Droid Incredible, HTC Evo, etc...
Please list the advantages or disadvantages of the application ...
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How can I best photograph a logo on a floor tile for reconstruction of the original image?
The original drawing of the local school logo is lost forever and I need to get one for a website. All that now exists is one on a floor tile (low-res version attached) taken with a Panasonic DMC-FX07....
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Is there free software to compare gamuts?
This questions is related to Why did LR6 soft proofing thought some colors were out of gamut even if they turned out perfect?
Since I found out some of my images are out of gamut of the printing ink+...
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Plan to a landscape shot
I want to learn how to plan ahead for a landscape shot. I'm looking for an online tool that can let me visualize the location in 3D. I'm looking also for another tool that let me know where will be ...
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Tool for finding original RAW files to already organized jpeg files
Problem description
Hi photography community,
as a hobby photographer I organize quite a lot of photos for my family and friends. I have a lightroom library of around 90k photos that accumulated over ...
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Software to select pictures while in fullscreen mode
I need to sort several thousands of pictures. To do that quickly, I am looking for a tool to select the pictures I want and then copy these in a new folder in an efficient way, ideally just using the ...
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What workflow can I use to work on photos on two different machines?
I want to work with photos, like in Lightroom, but I want to save my changes to the files directly. Even with RAW I want to adjust settings and save as jpg. It is enough for my private photos and ...
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How can I automatically convert Sony RAW (ARW) to JPEGs as good as the camera creates itself?
I am beginner and I made a mistake. I wanted to have the best quality and I saved photos only as raw files (arw). (I have a Sony DSC-RX100 IV).
I have 1000 photos ...
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Software suggestion to locate stars
I want to photograph the night sky and maybe get a Milkyway in the shot but dont know what position or time. Can you please recommend a software or a website that can let me know the position of the ...
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Software for batch-watermarking photos?
I've been moving toward publishing my photos online and due to copyright concerns I want to put watermarks with my logo on my photos (mainly I just don't want people stealing my photos and claiming ...
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How to remove hot pixels with a dark frame?
I took some photos at night and I didn't have long exposure noise reduction on. My photo has quite a few hot pixels, here's a 100% crop of a part of the sky:
Since long exposure noise reduction is ...
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How can I tag my images online?
I have hundreds of gigabytes of family photos on my hard disk at home.
What software will allow me to not only browse those online wherever I am, but most critically allow easy tagging via a web ...
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Is there a tripod calculator program or website?
Is there any program or online website that can recommend tripods based on a given lens and camera body?
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Comparison list of tagging & editing methods in photo management software
I am looking around for a photo management solution. I understand that some photo managers store tags in the photo themselves whilst some use an application specific database. I also understand that ...
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Photo recovery and duplicate removal
I'm currently in the process of recovering all the digital photos that were ever taken in my family. I've extracted data in multiple ways from damaged hard disks, broken CDs, almost unreadable floppy ...
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Is Pixeluvo a good Photoshop alternative?
Photography is my hobby and I am a Linux user. By now, I almost did not edit my photos and used only RawTherapee to work with RAW files.
Sometimes I want to edit my photos and looking for an ...
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Image Stitching with large Parallax
I need to stitch images of 5 cameras together. The cameras are mounted on the sides of an underwater remote operated vehicle. It's basicly a cupoid with sizes of 2.1m x 1.3m x 1.85m. The cameras are ...
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Slideshow software for handling 1000000+ photos [closed]
Looking for a software with the following requirements:
Can handle million+ photos,
Willing to pay for it up to €200 / $250-300,
I do not want any software that creates only videos of slideshows
must ...
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Does a YCbCr color picker exist for Windows or Unix?
Is there any YCbCr color-picker so that I can better understand the color space?
For example, I want to get the range from the blue sky or from green grass. I need to know the value ranges to detect ...
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How to automate a camera to take two pictures every hour for 24 hours, with each picture spaced apart by 15 seconds?
I would like to automate a camera to do what asked in the title. The camera will be in a fixed location looking at a colony of water fleas. I know about time lapses to take a picture every hour, and ...
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Software for cataloging photos? Alternatives to Windows Live Viewer [closed]
I'm looking for an alternative to Windows Live Viewer, since its light image editing, read meta data and assign ratings easily was great, but I don't know of any way to get it run anymore since ...
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Is there a GUI application to quickly geotag photos / run exiftool with multiple parameters?
In my workflow, I typically have a folder with photos taken on a certain date. I need to geotag them (embed GPS coordinates in metadata), the coordinates themselves come from a GPX file or need to be ...
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Software to Auto Align and Blend HDR
I am looking for software that can align photos which are slightly misaligned and then blend them together to produce a HDR photograph.
I often find that I am faced with a shot that my camera cannot ...
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What Digital Asset Management software supports multi-user collaborative catalog management?
How can a newspaper group with multiple photographers (15+) that, all-together, take and rate pictures from 3 or 4 events daily, manage a photo catalog?
I've heard of Digital Asset Management before, ...
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Android app to sort photos as in Lightroom desktop
I am searching for an android app that allows one to rank photos from a particular day or folder, say by giving a mark between 0 and 5, as in the desktop version of Adobe Lightroom. I haven't been ...
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Event Photography, Online Password Protect Each Photo
I am not sure of any other way to give each client their digital copy right away while still at the event.
I have been hired to do several events next month. I will be photographing a hundred or so ...
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Automatic removal/correction of brightness vignetting?
Amateur here. I have some photos, taken on Canon Powershot S3 IS, quite similar to this one (taken from The Irish Times, File photograph: Bryan O’Brien):
There is an obvious vignetting, as in radial ...
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How to exposure stack RAW photos while also outputting a raw photo?
So I have .DNG files that I have taken from an iPhone and I'm trying to figure out how to stack them and then output the stacked photo as a ...
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How to import photos without duplicates? [closed]
I organize my pictures using a folder structure on an external hard drive. Every time I import new pictures from my camera, I move this pictures in these folders manually. This process is tedious, and ...
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Can I use Entangle for tethered shooting and only copy jpeg files to speed up transfers?
I'm currently trying to figure out if Entangle, a Linux--based tethered shooting application, can be restricted to only copy files of a specific type.
My goal is to download only JPGs while shooting ...
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Photo management software that does not store information in its own library file [closed]
I would like to manage my photos such that they all get uploaded to an always-on server. That server then renames the files based on date the image was taken, and files away the images in a folder ...
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Silver Efex Pro competitors
I have been trying Silver Efex Pro the last two weeks with absolutely amazing results. But before I commit my $$$ I would like to know if there is any other similar software out there that can do the ...
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How do I design a secondary lens for my fixed-lens camera to narrow its field of view?
My goal is to put a lens or an array of lenses in front of my actioncam to use its high resolution for recording of undistorted normal-eyed footage, to avoid having to buy two cameras for the ...
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Is there any library other than gphoto2 to use remote capture in Canon G10?
I am using gphoto2 library to remote capture on my Canon G10.It does not take photos at the required frame rate.Currently i have not been able to achieve fastest the camera can achieve which is 1....
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