User-created articles: Software Techniques

Would you like your prints to be lighter and brighter? This article describes a method for achieving this that does not cause any changes to either colour saturation or hue.

Using Free/Open Source software LuminanceHDR to create and tonemap High Dynamic Range images

Ever though of shooting videos with green screen? This is a wonderful technique to produce true wonder of Hollywood.

The ultra-wide angle lens for the landscape photographers are those heavy pieces of glass that we just can't leave at home. The problem with them is a distortion called keystoning where the pitch angle of the camera causes vertical objects to lean toward the center of the image.

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Noise removal through simply taking a number of the same shot, and median combining them in post.

There are many programs, available in the market, which claim to be the greatest chroma key software programs in order to increase sales. The open source programs which make use of green screen technique are called chroma key programs.

A complete portrait session walk-through including capturing the image, and all of the step-by-step postprocessing to finish the image.

If you want to introduce special effects in your videos or photos, you can try a free green screen software program and get an edge in making high quality photos and videos.

Have you ever tried to reduce the contrast and been frustrated by the resulting faded and washed-out colours? This article shows how low contrast can be achieved without changing the colour saturation.

A method for reproducing Calvin Hollywoods "Freaky Details" effect in GIMP + G'MIC

A (hopefully) comprehensive look at methods for converting images to B&W (grayscale) in GIMP. Covers just about every available option, as well as pointers and thoughts on using them.

Chroma Key effects can give your photography a very creative look. Read out this resource to get complete knowledge about Chroma key software and technology.

Using open source software (Enfuse) to blend focus stacks of images in macro photography to increase depth of field.

First thing after taking photos and importing them to a PC is to organise them in a way that allows finding them in the future

"Content Aware Fill" in GIMP using Resynthesizer and the "Heal Selection" script provides an amazing means to build textures to replace portions of an image.

A home gown way to make your own cloud service for storing and accessing your photos remotely with an iPad or Laptop

each and every camera make and model produces different (maybe slightly) color tones of the subject. Monitors and printers also do the same. Therefore in order to keep constant and predictable results it is inevitable to use different tools and techniques to manage colors in our photos.