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Why is software-based manipulation of images frowned upon while hardware-based manipulation is acceptable?
Why are hardware-based manipulations, like black and white photography (traditionally using black-and-white film), long exposure, etc., which also result in an "unnatural" image, acceptable while ...
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Why is software-based manipulation of images frowned upon while hardware-based manipulation is acceptable?
Is it frowned upon? Photography has always made use of whatever technology was available, whether in the camera, the darkroom or, now, the computer.
It's a long time since other forms of art were ...
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What makes RAW files difficult for manipulation?
Nothing makes raw files difficult to manipulate for someone with the right expertise and tools. It's just that there aren't many folks around who have those tools and expertise.
The tools needed to ...
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Why is software-based manipulation of images frowned upon while hardware-based manipulation is acceptable?
Why are hardware-based manipulations, like black and white photography (traditionally using black-and-white film), long exposure, etc., which also result in an "unnatural" image, acceptable while ...
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What makes RAW files difficult for manipulation?
A RAW file is little more than a container for the output of a camera sensor. It has to be processed into an image which gives it full color information at each pixel. As such there are no programs ...
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Why is software-based manipulation of images frowned upon while hardware-based manipulation is acceptable?
I got into photography with a compact digital P+S just before DSLs became affordable, when all the photography experience and wisdom to absorb was about film. Because the people I learned photography ...
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How do I correct the huge blue-shift in these images?
I'm not sure how much they can really be rescued - there's one heck of a lot of blue in there & very little of anything else.
Applying a Levels Layer & pushing the mid-point of each colour by ...
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How would you remove power lines from a photo in the darkroom?
Not in the darkroom, but at the retouching (spotting) table.
If you're working with large format film, you can paint them out on the negative. But that's risky. Most of the time you retouch the ...
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Do I need a telephoto lens to make objects in the distance appear closer?
How the size of different objects in a photo appear in relation to one another is what we refer to as Perspective.
Perspective is determined by the position of the camera relative to the scene as ...
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Do I need a telephoto lens to make objects in the distance appear closer?
How can I achieve this effect?
Lens compression does not directly have anything to do with the focal length of a lens, though it may seem that way. In fact, it has everything to do with the distance ...
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Why is software-based manipulation of images frowned upon while hardware-based manipulation is acceptable?
Why... acceptable while... frowned upon by the photography community?
The context changes what is acceptable and what isn't. The context of your original question was "traditional photography rules" ...
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Where lays the border between correcting photo and creating a new one using PC?
Note: This answer was merged from a question that was almost identical to this one - the only difference was a minor focus on ethics, which is what I tried to explain in the second part of my answer.
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Watermarking processing proof
There are photoshop plugins around like imatag or digimarc, which offer this as a professional service.
The software encrypts a ...
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What makes RAW files difficult for manipulation?
There are better formats for lossless, high bit-depth image storage and exchange. The main benefit of raw files is that they contain minimally-processed sensor data. So there's no compelling reason ...
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How do I correct the huge blue-shift in these images?
I'm with Tetsujin on the edit to save. To me, it looks like the photo was taken intentionally using a strong blue filter - probably one made for use with black and white films (for contrast) as ...
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How do I correct the huge blue-shift in these images?
If you can get the raw, have a look at those. If they look reasonable, the blue colour might have been a conscient choice. But even in that case, creating a version in natural colours should be ...
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What makes RAW files difficult for manipulation?
RAW files are hard to manipulate because there are no tools for this.
There are no tools because manipulating them is pointless.
RAW files don't hold standard images. They hold the data read ...
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Is it possible to remove the projectors lighting that's imprinted on the staff members
The best option for you is to clone from the other image.
And if done correctly, no one will know that you edited the image.
Open the image in photoshop
Next, open the other image in photoshop as a ...
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How can I interpolate each color individually (i.e. export an image just with Red Color) using dcraw?
dcraw can't do this directly, but it can do something which will get you pretty close: render each pixel as a grayscale, either with unscaled pixel values with -D ...
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How can I interpolate each color individually (i.e. export an image just with Red Color) using dcraw?
I don't know of any raw converter (dcraw, ufraw, etc.) that will do this for you. But, if you have ImageMagick installed, you ...
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Can anyone tell me what to look for in a string to see if its been photoshopped or edited?
You are making a common error... that photoshop 3.0 tag does not mean the image was opened in photoshop. Photoshop 3 is almost 30yrs old and will not run on any current computer OS; the current ...
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Align 2 almost identical photos to be in the same position and proportions
I'm guessing the pictures similar but not perfectly aligned, ie not the same lens / camera combination and not the exact same camera position? They will need aligning and warping then outputting as ...
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What makes RAW files difficult for manipulation?
A typical camera sensor does not capture RGB pixels, but instead captures input distinct red-sensing pixels, green-sensing pixels, and blue-sensing pixels at slightly different locations; a raw file ...
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How does Lightroom group colors inside the HSL panel?
I'm not sure what your approach to the problem has been so far - so this may or (more likely) may not be of any use/interest.
If I was faced with this problem, I'd create a source image (or images) ...
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How does Lightroom group colors inside the HSL panel?
I did a fairly in depth analysis of the black and white conversion tool in Photoshop back when they released it in CS3. Its only six color bands, but it might give you some insight into how their ...
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Is there an optical/photographic reason for the difference between product and its product image?
Black is a color. "Chrome" is not a color, it is a property of the material that reflects the light of the surrounding area, in a way that produces an image of it. It is basically a mirror.
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Improving images for human vision
The gold ring of fine arts (predates photography), graphic arts, and photography is to make a faithful image. Fine art suffers because canvas, paper, dyes, and pigments have limitations. Early on, ...
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Is it possible to remove the projectors lighting that's imprinted on the staff members
Probably a good approach would be to clone the teachers over the other photo. But one student will still remain affected.
Mask the faces on the second photo, copy > and paste on the first image.
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How do I correct the huge blue-shift in these images?
That is a lot of blue; it's hard to recover much more.
Instead, I de-saturated the photo then ran it through an AI (colorize-it.com) that colorizes black and white photos.
It's hard to say what ...
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