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- 2009-Dec-24: Inpaint from Teorex is a tool for removing unwanted objects from photos and replacing them with background textures. [8865] [1]
- 2009-Oct-23: Lexar's Image Rescue 4 is software for recovering deleted photos from flash devices. [8648] [1]
- 2009-Oct-09: PhotoSketch is a tool that will search for and combine elements from photographs in accordance with your hand drawn sketch instructions. Discussed here on Slashdot and mentioned here on Gizmodo. [8609] [1]
- 2009-Oct-09: Photo Plus, a basic image editing package from FreeSerifSoftware is available for free (the older version 6) or as a low cost download (the new version 8). In Oct'09 version X3 got reviewed, this looks like it has a good extractor tool to allow for easy extraction of a portion of the image. [3923] [1]
- 2009-Sep-29: The seam carving technology that appeared in 2007 has been commercialized and should be available for purchase in early 2008. This is now (almost - April'08) available. The VSO Seam Carving software was released Oct'09. [4955] [1]
- 2009-Sep-28: Photomizer is fully automated photo image enhancement software. [8570] [1]
- 2009-Sep-10: vReveal is image processing software for video editing, it even makes use of CUDA to speed things up. [8500] [1]
- 2009-Aug-28: Topaz Adjust is an image enhancement tool, for manipulation of exposure, detail and color balance. [8434] [1]
- 2009-Jul-27: AKVIS Enhancer is an image correction and enhancement program. [8332] [1]
- 2009-Jul-17: A web site that will convert a set of overlapping photographs into a 3D model has been launched. [8296] [1]
- 2009-Jun-02: Slashdot discusses data recovery software. Suggestions include:
- TestDisk and PhotoRec from cgsecurity.org.
- GetDataBack
- WinHex
- R-Studio
- Restoration
- Adroit Photo Recovery
- 2009-Mar-19: FotoInsight Designer is a photo book application that integrates with Flickr, Facebook, Picassa and the geotagging site locr. [7745] [1]
- 2009-Mar-01: Technology Review takes a look at the face recognition software that is now a part of iPhoto and Google's Picasa (online only). [7665] [1]
- 2009-Jan-24: Photos on TV3 is a slide show creation package that will provide some support for Google Earth views. [7485] [1]
- 2008-Nov-24: Visual Similarity is software that finds photographs that have similar content. [7252] [1]
- 2008-Oct-31: Hugin is a free panoramic photo editor available on a number of platforms, it is reviewed here. [7128] [1]
- 2008-Oct-29: XDepth 48 is an attempt at moving JPEGs to 16 bits per color (i.e. 48 bits per pixel). This would be a very good thing as it would allow camera manufacturers to build systems to capture a greater dynamic range (without having to resort to RAW formats). [7116] [1]
- 2008-Oct-01: Microsoft's Pro Photo Tools 2 can view and convert RAW images and geotag photographs. [6954] [1]
- 2008-Oct-01: Microsoft's AutoCollage 2008 will take a bunch of your photos and build a collage of them. [6955] [1]
- 2008-Sep-24: Microsoft's Image Composite Editor can be used to quickly build panoramas from separate images. It appears to do a nice job, even on images that were taken hand-held and at odd angles and with foreground objects. [6911] [1]
- 2008-Sep-09: iLovePhotos is a Mac software package that uses facial recognition to manage your photo collection. [6820] [1]
- 2008-Sep-04: Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery is a program to recover photos that have been lost, due to deletion or formatting. Might be worth remembering in case you format a flash card by accident. [6792] [1]
- 2008-Sep-04: Google's Picassa photo sharing site now offers facial recognition. [6790] [1]
- 2008-Jul-22: The LightBox Advanced Digital Image Editor comes in two versions: a free one and a $19.95 plus version with more features. [6557] [1]
- 2008-Jun-26: TinEye searches the web for images of similar content. [6442] [1]
- 2008-Jun-20: FireFox version 3 added colour management for photos with embedded ICC profiles, here is how to enable it. [6384] [1]
- 2008-Jun-20: RansenScan is a package that allows multiple photos to be placed and scanned at the same time, it then auto-detects and extracts the individual photos to separate files. [6383] [1]
- 2008-Jun-09: A discussion of Photoshop's blending math can be found here with more details here. [6307] [1] [2]
- 2008-May-21: fotox is a free, open-source, photo retouching application for Linux. It includes panoramic stitching and high dynamic range functions as well as general exposure and colour correction tools. [6206] [1]
- 2008-May-15: ViewGenie Photo Explorer can build a map from photos of a scene using AI processing to match up elements. [6164] [1]
- 2008-May-08: Adobe has submitted their DNG file format as a possible ISO standard. Lets hope they have sorted out any patent issues with it. [6070] [1]
- 2008-Apr-15: BullZeye 3 is a standalone image colour corrector package, it also supports batch processing. It is based on technology from PictoColor Corporation who make a standalone package called iCorrect EditLab Pro, which looks very similar to the BullZeye 3 package, yet sells for half the price. There is a demo version (fully functional but puts watermarks into the saved output) of EditLab that you can download to test, I played with this a bit and found that it worked quite well, as long as there was something white or grey in the frame to base the colour cast correction on. In Apr'08 PictoColor started to beta test an online version of iCorrect, it's not clear at this point if they intend to charge for this service. [2509] [1]
- 2008-Apr-07: Adobe has put a free version of Photoshop Express on the web. This allows you to do some photo editing and sharing through your browser and get enticed into buying more from Adobe. It's probably also a way for Adobe to test the waters of software rentals and see what features are really used. The first version of the license agreement for this granted Adobe rights to your photos, because of complaints this may be revised. The license agreement has been revised, the new terms start 10-April-2008. [5342] [1]
- 2008-Mar-21: Ovolab's Geophoto 2 is a photo-geotagging application. [5317] [1]
- 2008-Feb-05: Phatch is a photo batch processor (home page) with a wxPython frontend, useful for resizing, rotating, applying watermarks... [5051] [1] [2]
- 2008-Jan-28: Stanford has a 3-d modeling system that builds 3-d models from regular photographs. [5007] [1]
- 2008-Jan-18: CorrectPhoto 3.0 from PictoColor is a colour correction package, a free trial version is available. [4954] [1]
- 2008-Jan-12: A comparison of various panoramic photo stitching packages. [4663] [1] [2]
- 2007-Dec-19: PhotoPerfect is image editing software that can handle 16bit TIFF and RAW files. [4468] [1]
- 2007-Dec-15: paint.net is a free image and photo editing package, originally designed as a replacement for the old Microsoft Paint. [4432] [1]
- 2007-Dec-04: photology, is software that looks at the contents of your photographs to identify real world shapes in them (including faces) to allow you to search a collection of photographs by content. [4391] [1]
- 2007-Nov-19: PCMag reviews the Epson Perfection V500 Photo, this is an LED illuminated flatbed with film and negative scanning capability. This can scan 4 slides at a time and includes the Digital ICE dust and scratch removal system. A slide scan takes about 77 seconds, but with ICE enabled this rises to 150 seconds. [4173] [1]
- 2007-Nov-14: picnik is a web-based photo editing package, [4149] [1]
- 2007-Nov-01: EXIF Pilot is software that allows you to view and edit EXIF data. [3909] [1]
- 2007-Oct-06: Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 gets more features, but still could be made more user-friendly. This version added panorama image assembly (which compares well with Ulead PhotoImpact) and the new Group Shot feature is designed to allow one to make a single photo containing the best elements out of several group poses. This version also has support for producing photo books, which need to be uploaded to Kodak for printing. There are some other places that do photo books: Picaboo and ShutterFly. [2600] [1]
- 2007-Oct-04: Photo Story 3, is an add-on download for Windows XP, with some photo album and DVD burning capabilities. [2537] [1]
- 2007-Oct-04: ACDSee 10 Photo Manager has some new image processing tools, including shadow detail enhancement. [2530] [1]
- PictaTrove is the small photo-sharing web server that I have written. [2436] [1]
- PIE - Picture Information Extractor [2437] [1]
- Thumber [2438] [1]
- ThumbsPlus [2439] [1]
- PhotoGenetics [2440] [1]
- VuePrint a nice picture display and conversion utility, fast zooming and conversion functions, VueScan is a nice scanner utility from the same author. [2441] [1]
- PixAround [2442] [1]
- QImagePro [2443] [1]
- Reader - freeware EXIF reader [2444] [1]
- Reading EXIF header information, more information is on TsuruZoh's page. [2445] [1]
- Aunt Abigail's Photo Album layout program [2446] [1]
- LucisART for image manipulation [2447] [1]
- SmartPix photo manager [2448] [1]
- LView photo manager [2449] [1]
- PanoGuide.com has reviews of PTGui a gui front end for PanoTools a free panoramic program plugin suite along with articles on making panoramic photographs. [2450] [1]
- Panorama Factory looks like being a nice piece of software, it gets reviewed here by OutBackPhoto.com, and used in this article Go Wide with Digital Panoramas [2451] [1]
- An article on making panoramas [2452] [1]
- Automatic Panoramic Image Merging, by Paul Haeberli and Eyal Ofek discusses some of the algorithms behind the automatic stitching of images. [2453] [1]
- PhotoGenics (not to be confused with PhotoGenetics) is a photoshop like thing [2454] [1]
- PixVue a picture viewing shell extension for MicroSoft systems, includes EXIF info capability [2455] [1]
- Sonic Foundry makes video edit software [2456] [1]
- Reviews of Studio DV from Pinnacle Systems here and here and here and here and a page of tips. [2457] [1]
- Adobe Premiere 6.0 video editing software [2458] [1]
- Digital Video FAQ [2459] [1]
- Retinex Image Processing from NASA may be coming soon to digicam software [2460] [1]
- a review of Breezebrowser, a browser for Canon RAW format files [2461] [1]
- Stair Interpolation, an alternative to Lanczos and Genuine Fractals. [2462] [1]
- ColorFix, a colour space conversion tool [2463] [1]
- Profile Prism a combination of colour target and software to generate custom ICC colour profiles for your scanner, camera and printer [2464] [1]
- Breeze Systems makes the BreezeBrowser and RemoteCapture tools for the Canon G1, G2 and other cameras [2465] [1]
- TVwriter will add EXIF header information to regular JPEG files so that they can be loaded into a digital camera, this allows you to use the camera to display these on a TV, along with other regular images you have taken with the camera. [2466] [1]
- VCom's DVD PhotoPlay simplifies the process of building CDs that run as slide shows in DVD players and PCs [2467] [1]
- YarcPlus is a utility for conversion and viewing of Canon RAW mode photographs [2468] [1]
- ImageStacker is a program for combining a number of images to improve light sensitivity [2469] [1]
- Exif Reader is (free) software that allows you to browse the EXIF information embedded within your photographs. Works well with my Canon G1. [2470] [1]
- ViewEXIF is a Windows Explorer plugin that lets you right click on a file to see its EXIF information. [2471] [1]
- exifdump.py is a Python script program to dump the EXIF information, this would be of use if you were writing some (python) scripts to manipulate a number of photographs, perhaps you wanted to extract this information and place it in a database... [2472] [1]
- ImageAlign from Grasshopper is a program for correcting lens distortion effects [2473] [1]
- DXO makes DXO Optics Pro, (reviewed here) an image enhancement program that corrects for lens distortion and blur. This is also being extended (Aug'04) to include support for the Minolta A2 and the Sony DSC828. [2474] [1]
- Helicon makes NoiseFilter, a image noise filtering program that is available in free and professional versions. [2475] [1]
- NoiseNinja2 gets reviewed here. [2476] [1]
- IFranView is a freeware image viewer, with some manipulation capabilities. Through a set of plugins it has support for loading RAW format files for a number of cameras, including the Minolta A1/A2. It is reviewed here, apparently it now has the ability to create panoramic photos. [2477] [1]
- Video resolution test patterns you can download, print and do your own pixel peeping [2478] [1]
- FocusMagic is a product for correcting focus and motion blur problems in photos [2479] [1]
- BreezeBrowser also does RAW format conversion for most cameras from Canon, Nikon, Minolta, Pentax and Olympus. [2480] [1]
- Digital Light & Colour makes PictureWindow Pro, which does 16 bit image processing, for way less than PhotoShop CS [2481] [1]
- ImageShifter is a freeware program that converts Minolta DiMAGE 7/A1/A2 RAW files to TIFF [2482] [1]
- ProShow from Photodex can make DVD slide shows [2483] [1]
- PhotoMovieMaker, from Preclick, is another DVD slide show maker. [2484] [1]
- Dalibor RAW is a utility for conversion of Minolta MRW raw format files. Dalifer is another utility to allow access to all the information in the EXIF header and maker notes for files created by Minolta cameras. [2485] [1]
- FxFoto is an image manipulation, cataloging and slide show creation package [2486] [1]
- A depth of field calculator on the web [2487] [1]
- Interpolation software useful for upscaling phtotos for large prints [2488] [1]
- PostScript RIP software for use with large format Epson printers [2489] [1]
- Noiseware, from Imagenomic, looks like a good noise reduction package for high ISO shooting. This is quite impressive at what it can do with ISO 800 shots from a Minolta A2 (which are quite noisy). Have a look at this gallery for some examples that have been processed by it. Also have a look at these images I processed with it. It gets reviewed here. [2491] [1]
- Exifer is a program to examine the EXIF (including maker notes section) of digital images. [2492] [1]
- xatshow, slide show making software [2493] [1]
- RawPhotoDesk is a RAW editing and conversion program, currently in beta [2494] [1]
- imgSeek allows you to search photos by looking for ones with similar appearance (done via a wavelet transform) [2495] [1]
- CameraBits has Photo Mechanic and Quantum Mechanic and Band Aide, photo viewing and noise clean up tools [2496] [1]
- A new tool for noise removal that also has the potential for use as an automatic obstruction removal tool (removing the bars from a zoo cage for example) [2497] [1]
- A review of noise filtering tools [2498] [1]
- The GIMP is a free photo editing package, an extended manual is available called Grokking the GIMP [2499] [1]
- Power Retouche makes photo editing pluging for Photoshop [2500] [1]
- O'Reilly's digital media site, for books and more [2501] [1]
- Microsoft's guide to configuring a Windows XP box for best pixel processing performance [2502] [1]
- Poster printing software is available from Softpedia and Softizer [2503] [1]
- dcraw is a tool for decoding RAW format photographs from many cameras [2504] [1]
- PhotoFiltre is an image processing/manipulation program that is available in a reduced feature free version and a commercial version. It is reviewed here. [2505] [1]
- Recover lost photos from flash media [2506] [1]
- Using fractals to enlarge images, Connected Photographer reviews, Enlarger Pro and declares that it does a better job than the much more expensive Genuine Fractals program. [2507] [1]
- The PictSync group is trying to standardize photo sharing. [2508] [1]
- LightZone, a retouching package based on Ansel Adam's Zone System [2510] [1]
- STOIK makes a number of image processing tools, including PictureMan and Noise Autofix. [2511] [1]
- REALVIZ combining photographs with Google Earth [2512] [1]
- A new algorithm to reduce camera motion blur [2513] [1]
- Mitsubishi's flutter-shutter approach to deblurring pictures. [2514] [1]
- PhotoStudio Darkroom, by ArcSoft. [2515] [1]
- ProFotoSoftware, makes PFS Image Darkroom, a photo manipulation package with integrated RAW format support [2516] [1]
- Searching photo archives for patterns [2517] [1]
- NaturalGrafiX, makes ImageIron, a program for correcting lens distortion. This program allows you to develop your own callibration profiles using your own camera and lens sets. [2518] [1]
- Lightroom versus Aperture, a comparitive review. [2519] [1]
- GREYCstoration is an open source tool that can be used for noise removal and image resizing, discussed here on Slashdot. This is a command line tool, which might be a good thing as that allows you to use it from a batch file for bulk processing tasks. [2520] [1]
- MediaPro from iView is image management software for annotating, organizing and distributing digital files. [2521] [1]
- PortraitProfessional is a semi-automatic face retouching software package for photo portrait work, it also has the ability to do some facial reshaping. [2522] [1]
- PixelDragons.com makes a number of photo-oriented software packages, including Just Resize My Photos (which is specialized to the task of batch resizing) and Image Genius (which is a general purpose batch image processor) [2523] [1]
- The Artist's Guide to GIMP Effects, by Michael J. Hammel, ISBN: 978-1593271213. [2524] [1]
- Corel's MediaOne Plus is a digital photo enhancement and DVD creation package. [2525] [1]
- BenVista's PhotoArtist 2, is a package for creating artwork based on digital photos. [2526] [1]
- Corel's Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 gets reviewed here. An here too from PC Mag. [2527] [1]
- Qimage 2008 now supports printing stitched panoramas and super high resolution scans. [2528] [1]
- Corel's Painter Essentials 4, another package to help you turn photos into art. [2529] [1]
- From Steve Mann, digital image processing to assemble higher resolution photos out of a set of low resolution images. [5902] [1]