Questions tagged [software]
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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How to view images from diskette containing .IDC files from the late 1980s?
I had a friend send me five 3½-inch floppy disks containing .IDC files. The dates on these diskettes indicate they were taken in 1989. These diskettes are all structured the same, as they contain ...
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Why does Lightroom CC Library Module adds grain and/or texture to certain of my images that is not present in the Develop Module?
I've seen a few posts about the lightroom Library Module having a change in colors from the Develop Module because of the different color space they use but in my case it's more a question of Noise ...
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Migrate from Apple Photos to darktable
all. Is there already a way to migrate from Apple Photos to darktable? I know it's possible to read from an Apple Photos database with AppleScript and that Lua has a Lua scripting API, so if there isn'...
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How can I extract just the value of a tag without the name using exiftool?
I am trying to save the camera make to a variable in my Bash script. If I use:
exiftool -make x.jpg
This returns:
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Automation of export from lightroom to a presentation format (e.g. Powerpoint)
I have a few hundred commercial photoshoots in Lightroom Classic organized in a folder structure that follows this format:
[Photoshoot name] => [Product name] => Photo files, some are processed ...
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How to fill my time-lapse video with more frames?
I'm making a time-lapse video in a place with very low light conditions. Each photo has an exposure of 20 seconds and my camera take 10 seconds more to process the image. This means, 2 frames per ...
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Is there a software to automatically crop a scan of multiple images?
I want to digitize my old family albums using a scanner and there are lots of photos in them. Thus far, my method has been to scan 4 images at a time and then manually cropping them in a simple editor ...
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Possible to open Capture One preview/proxy files in Photoshop?
One of our photographers lost his raw files from a photoshoot, but we still have the Capture One preview/proxy files (.CR2.cop) and I'm trying to find a way to extract image data from them to salvage ...
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Is it possible to determine elevation angles from a photograph?
I need to know the elevation angles of various 'features' in a image. I do not know the height or distance to these various features. I do know that one feature has an fixed elevation of x degrees in ...
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Tool for finding original RAW files to already organized jpeg files
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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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Microsoft Paint renders pictures sharper than others
I use Picasa 3 to view my pictures, but today I just happened to open a picture in Microsoft Paint. MUCH sharper at ALL picture sizes (Zoom in and out). So I compared a few pictures in Paint to ...
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How can I easily convert a large number of pictures from RAW to scaled down JPG?
I have a collection of shots from the same session in RAW and want to covert all of them to JPG. Each one should have a curve applied, then be scaled and sharpened using the same settings.
What is ...
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What tools exist to remove metadata from photos?
Whenever I share my photographs, I also share lots of information that I do not want to pass on:
specific camera model that the photo was taken with
exposure time
focal ratio
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How can I remove ...
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Create a panorama from main camera footage of TV sports broadcasts
I am looking for the possibility to create a panorama of a stadium/arena just by using the regular footage from the main camera of a TV sports broadcast. By that I mean I'd like to find a way to ...
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Tips to correct photograph which was taken by an iPhone 11 with light sensor issues
I took a photograph with an iPhone 11 which has a light sensor issue. Due to that, the photograph is purple-ish and has a strange line in the top. Part of the photograph (the sky) depicting the ...
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How do I tile pictures in a grid?
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 searching the net all day and got lost between fancy photo collages, photo mosaics (...
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Which software to assemble a time-lapse from images?
I own a Nikon D700, which has in-camera support for taking time-lapse photos, but I need advice on the easiest and best software solutions for processing the resulting heap of images. I accept that ...
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.dtrash folder in digiKam
I've just started using digiKam on Windows for my photo management software. In the root folder where I keep my files (Picture) is a folder, .dtrash\files, that has ...
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RAWTherapee on Windows10 Migration from RT5.8 to RT5.9
The .pp3 profiles created on RT5.8 do not give the same result (JPEG) on RT5.9 (especially for negative films but also for digital)
How can I solve this problem?
Should I use the 2 versions in ...
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Can you use Olympus/OM Systems OI.Share app on a single phone to connect to 2 cameras (not at the same time)
I have the OI.Share app, which fairly seemlessly connects to my OMD E-10 Mk III over WiFi, when I enable WiFi on the body, and connect to its hotspot. This works ...
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Why can't I get my Canon 60D to connect to EOS Utility 2?
So I've spent the entire afternoon trying to get EOS Utility to detect my 60D without breakthrough and I'm desperate for help!
What I have done so far:
Updated anything that could be updated on my ...
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How to batch convert old NEF photos to JPEG/HEIF with in-camera processing look?
I have ~9k NEF photos from a Nikon D5000 that are currently taking up ~100GB. It's been 8+ years without me touching them, so I don't see a reason to assume I will ever process and edit them.
I'd ...
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Sorting Burst mode / continuous shooting photos in to folders
Maybe this question was ask before, but now is 2020 and maybe there is something new on the internet :))
I take burst mode photos with my camera. But they are so hard to sort, because of the amount ...
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How do I apply my copyright information from XMP automatically with DigiKam?
I have an xmp file with my copyright information provided by the Creative Commons license wizard. How can I configure DigiKam to automatically apply this information to every image I import?
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How can I measure a height in an image using a person's height as reference?
I have an image of a person standing next to a tree. The person has a known height (1.8m). I want to estimate the tree height using the pixel ratio of the person to the tree.
I have previously done so ...
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Is there a way to automatically make the histogram of an image match another image?
Is histogram matching used in real-life photo editing ? Lets say, I have 2 images and I want the first to have histogram of second.
And is there any software, that can do this?
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Was there a Canon lens correction tool that output the lens corrected raw files for a folder of pictures?
The canon raw photo file was not lens corrected, such as the discussion in this post.(Canon DSLR Lens Correction)
However, some photo editing software could not apply the lens correction itself.
Was ...
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Suggestions for shared cross-platform photo management?
I have a Mac, my wife has a Win7 machine. Currently I take all of our photos and put them into iPhoto. There's about 35K images in there now. The problem is that they are all accessible only from my ...
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Advantages of complex demosaicing algorithms on images to be scaled down
Let's say I have a 20MP RAW image, that I know will be used scaled down. I can think of several reasons why I would know that for sure: it will be published on the web, it will only be displayed on ...
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Is there a way to synchronise JPEG metadata into RAW files in Lightroom?
I've shot RAW + JPEG for most of my photos, and have added quite a lot of metadata to the JPEGs using Windows Live Photo Gallery. I've mainly added keywords and people tags (thanks to the new face ...
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How to reduce or eliminate flash reflections on eyeglasses in post?
First off, I know how to do this in the studio. Not gonna happen. This is an obituary photo.
Second off, I don't do software subscriptions, so Photoshop is out. I know how to do this in Photoshop: ...
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Is there any photography website where I could find photos based on exposure time, focal length, ISO...?
I was wondering if there is a site where I could filter photos that were shot, for example, with a certain exposure time and few other conditions.
Is there any photography website where I could filter ...
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Can I use my Samsung A51 smartphone camera to look at the red/near-infrared region?
I have two regions of interest: red (~665nm) and near-infrared / far-red (~720-750nm).
(possibly more but I'd like to see what is possible first)
The ratio of the absorbance values for red/far red is ...
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Did Canon remove the possibility to read the shuttercount?
So, I just saw this question and it got me thinking of something I stumbled upon recently.
Whenever I get a Canon camera in my hands, I read out its shuttercount using ...
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Photo management software (feat. map, calendar, object identification, favorites, screensaver, etc.) [closed]
As much as I have searched online, I can't seem to find a proper standalone photo management software that includes the following features:
A map view, where the pictures can be located on a world ...
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Terminology for camera focus values
I am a software developer writing a software interface for a Bosch mic 9000i camera. I have an interface to change the focus of the camera and I'm writing documentation for an end user. The numeric ...
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Is it possible to get a camera that has nearly the exact same camera quality (software and hardware) as a specific phone?
Recently I've been meaning to get a camera that looks, feels, and takes pictures nearly identical to the Apple iPhone 8+.
I mainly try to take sunset and sunrise photos, but I also take some general ...
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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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What do the buttons do in digikam's face recognition UI?
A while back, there was a question on digikam's mailing list that unfortunately never got answered. I'd like to ask that question here.
Paraphrasing, I'd like to know what happens when, after running ...
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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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What software can show my most frequently used focal length?
Many people recommend a focal length of 35mm, 50mm, and sometimes even 85mm and upwards for those interested in purchasing a prime lens. I, however, would like to figure out what focal length(s) I use ...
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How to match color range in two photos when colorizing (hue, saturation)?
Consider two outdoors photos taken with different cameras and different cities. You want to include both in the same photo series and therefore need to re-touch them with identical color profiles and ...
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Adapt to uncalibrated printer
Print centers in my city provide bad quality of photos.
I have a printer calibrator. I would like to adapt my photos to uncalibrated printer in print center.
I feel process is as this:
print color ...
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Edit RAW DNG data without demosaic
Is there any software to edit RAW DNG pixel data without demosaic, and save changes directly to RAW?
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What are these focal lengths for Sigma Nikon Optimization Pro for 14-70mm F2.8 OS HSM A017?
I've been calibrating my Sigma lenses using the Sigma Optimization Pro application and the doc hub, for instance, the 24-70mm F2.8 DG OS HSM A017 Nikon version.
In order to do so, I take photos at ...
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Where to download SONY Imaging Edge for MacOS 10.12
Where can I find a downloadable version of Sony Imaging Edge (Remote/Viewer/Edit) compatible with MacOS 10.12?
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How To Make Photoshop CS6 Tilt-Shift Guidelines Reappear?
In Photoshop, the guidelines for the new blur effects (the lines that indicate which parts of the photo are being blurred and that can be moved, tilted, etc) completely disappeared. I'm assuming I ...
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Creating a digital photo with an exposure of EV -2
On a MacBook computer running OSX, is there an app I can use to create a digital photo file with an exposure of EV -2 ?
I'm looking for something that will simulate the bracketing function of a ...
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Is there a tool to check the file integrity of a series of images?
Sometimes when you're downloading an image and the connection breaks mid stream, you are left with a half downloaded image. If you try to view it you get the upper part of the image and the bottom ...
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Why does an iPhone need software for Portrait Mode? [duplicate]
I have an iPhone X, with a camera specs of:
Wide-angle: ƒ/1.8 aperture
Telephoto: ƒ/2.4 aperture
Why does the phone need software to produce Portrait Mode image (image with background blur / bokeh)? ...
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