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Photo / Image Editing, Post Processing
- Non-destructive RAW file image editor and DAM (Digital Access Management)
- Adobe Lightroom Classic Tips and Solutions Page
- Non-destructive RAW file image editing, and tethered capture.
- Capture One Express is a free scaled down version of Capture One:
- Adobe Lightroom and Capture One Pro Close-Up By Martin Evening
- Top 10 Reasons I won’t be switching to Capture One Pro by Mark Galer
- Free online image editor supporting PSD, XCF, Sketch, XD and CDR formats. (Adobe Photoshop, GIMP, Sketch App, Adobe XD, and CorelDRAW)
- Darktable is an open source photography workflow application and raw developer. A virtual light table and darkroom for photographers. It manages your digital negatives in a database, lets you view them through a zoomable light table and enables you to develop raw images and enhance them.
- Free Lightroom Alternative: Darktable Review by GDquest
- Darktable: Is This Free Lightroom Alternative Right for You?
- Non-destructive photo editor.
- Basic Editing in Raw Therapee by Dale Poole
- Luminar is a non-destructive image editing and photo management software application and plugin for Mac & Windows
- Luminar uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) powered tools to make complex editing simpler. You can let the software do all the work for you, or take full control of each edit yourself.
Cataloging, Media Management
PhotoPrism is an AI-Powered Photos App for the Decentralized Web. It makes use of the latest technologies to tag and find pictures automatically without getting in your way. You can run it at home, on a private server, or in the cloud.
- Mylio – Browse all your media in one place — Backup automation, effortless organization, stored privately on your own devices.
- All the AI tools in Mylio Photos are 100% private and run on your device without the need for the Internet or Cloud.
- Get organized automatically with SmartTags and QuickCollections or manually feature your best with Albums.
- Finally – a Free Photo Cataloging App That Is AWESOME! by Ted Forbes
- Use Photo Mechanic media browser to view, organize, manage, and export digital photos
Utilities
- This tool provides information on the number of MECHANICAL shutter actuations that a given SONY camera has made up to the given image.
- Electronic/silent/quiet shutter activations are not counted.
- The photo is evaluated on the local computer within the Web browser.
- This tool is based on ExifTool by Phil Harvey.
- Use to decode and read “Image Count” on Sony A7 III
- Download the Windows Executable (.zip)
- Add the EXE to the Desktop
- Copy an image to the Desktop
- Drag the image on top of exiftool.exe to have the image open with exiftool
- In the window that opens, scroll down to “Image Count”
Picture Information Extractor (PIE)
- Picture Information Extractor (PIE) is a picture browser and viewer with photo metadata and file renaming features.
- It extracts EXIF, XMP and IPTC from JPG, TIF and RAW files.
- Reads the EXIF Makernote block, which is proprietary and can usually only be read with special software from the camera maker. It contains information such as program mode, white balance settings or lens data
- Note: Doesn’t work for reading “Image Count” for Sony A7 III, as the value displayed is always zero. Use ExifTool instead.
- Photo Summary allows you to easily create images with an overlay of the camera settings used to take the photo.
- You can add any additional notes (EG: lighting) and customize the appearance.
- Usually these images are used for sharing “Behind the Scenes” info on social media.
- Sony SD Scan Utility helps you check the condition of your SD memory card. By scanning the flash memory, it tells you whether your SD memory card is working in good condition or is about to reach its limit of maximum writes.
- Recuva can recover pictures, music, documents, videos, e-mails or any other file type you’ve lost. And it can recover from any rewrite-able media you have: memory cards, external hard drives, USB Flash drives, etc.
- Sony RAW Driver is a program to display Sony RAW data* (ARW/SR2/SRF files) on Microsoft Windows.
- By installing this program, you can display the RAW data in Explorer or Photo Gallery on Microsoft Windows in the same way as JPEG files.
- Images may look rough when enlarged on Photo Gallery, but they can be displayed properly in the supplied software or other supported software.