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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Auto-focus on sensor shift technology
I just wonder how the auto-focus working in sensor shift, I meant the sensor shift stuff was like stabilize the sensor as well as its move the lens too (like in iphone 12 upward), I just dont know how ...
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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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Lightroom "breaks" randomly
I don't really know how I can effectively describe my problem, but as I understand it more I will update this post.
My Adobe Lightroom v. 7.5, updated yesterday, sometimes "breaks". Several ...
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Is it possible to view by date in Picasa?
I'm running Picasa on MacOS, and I can see all of my photos by person and by folder. But can I view them by date? Ideally I'd like to see 'virtual folders' by date YYYY/MM/DD like:
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What free software exists for geotagging photos?
I do a lot of hikes and bike tours. On these tours I use a GPS device to track the route. I also use my compact camera to take some pictures.
Now I want to use geotagging software to enhance the ...
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Any tool that would retrieve the ORIGINAL date a photo was created on even after it has been processed?
As mentioned in the title, sometimes the desktop or mobile application used to process/edit a photo, especially if it has been moved, copied, re-saved, etc.. would cause the very original date of the ...
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How does Darktable compare to Adobe Lightroom for editing JPEGs?
I mostly modify JPG images taken from my Nikon camera. How does Darktable compare to Adobe Lightroom for this purpose?
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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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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 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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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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Brightness in viewing photos in Lightroom
When I edit (develop) a photo in Lightroom, the displayed image in Lightroom is brighter than the "real" photo. I deduce it in two ways:
Inspecting the histogram, I see it is centered on ...
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Lightroom having problems importing old PSD files
I recently installed the newest Adobe Lightroom Classic. I tried to import an old PSD file created by Photoshop CS5. Lightroom does not succeed in importing it. How to solve this?
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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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A more "professional" contrast curve than \$y = ax + b\$?
What curves do photographers use when modifying the contrast of their photographic images?
The simple equation \$y=ax+b\$ is sometimes with \$a\$ as "contrast" and \$b\$ as "brightness&...
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Fake image so confuesd real or not
Hi I received a photo from a friend who claimed she was at venue.The venue sould of had more ppl where there was no one the barman looks very small against what seems to be a large head of someone. I ...
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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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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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.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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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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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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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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