[Digikam-users] Improving photos

[Gerhard Kulzer]

Am Wednesday 18 April 2007 schrieb Jürgen Flosbach dk:
> Mikolaj Machowski wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Some other general digital photography topic.
> >
> > Not all photos (I'd say minority) is coming from camera ideal.
> > Sometimes you need to remove noise, highlight dark areas, improve
> > levels.
> >
> > How often do you use this techniques?
> > What are you doing with original photos?
> > What techniques do you use?
>
> Just my way.
> ------------
>
> My objects are :
> Landscape, flowers, macros, family, traveling
>
> After shooting the images
>
> create appropriate directory
> create directory underneath called "original"
> copy all new images into the "original" directory
>
> delete bad images
> create descriptions and tags for the good ones
> rename, with the batch tool, all remaining images
>     according to my naming scheme.
> adjust most of my images and save the result in the
>     directory above the "original"
>
> adjusting tasks are :
> rotate
> crop
> level
> refocus
>
> For more critical tasks I edit the pictures with Gimp ( unfortunately
> Gimp doesn't ) keep the exif information.

can be restored like this:
exiftool -tagsfromfile orig.jpg gimp.jpg
>
> Currently I shoot my images as JPEGs in highest resolution but maybe I
> go back to shoot in RAW again.
>
> I'm currently reading information about HDI and DRI.
> The following link might be of interest :
> http://turtle.as.arizona.edu/jdsmith/exposure_blend.php

Gerhard
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