Two of the older projects I have run for some time now are Needs More Lens Flare, a toy web app for automatically adding lens flare to photos, and Drone Stable, a more robust web application for automatically stabilizing aerial (or any kind of) video.
I am afraid I don't …
In my last post, I talked about stitching panoramas with Photoshop. There is an open source application named Hugin that can do the same and more. It is dedicated panorama stitching software, so there are many more options available to you.
This guide uses Hugin 2016.2.0.
Hugin supports …
One of Photoshop's less frequently used features is the ability to stitch together photos into a panorama. Here's how you can go about making them.
This guide uses Photoshop CC 2017.1.1 on Windows 10.
In Photoshop, go to File -> Automate -> Photomerge.
The photomerge dialog will come up. You …
Apparently PIL, and therefore Pillow, do not support Nikon RAW (.NEF) files. From what I can tell, my camera shoots RAWs in a 14-bit grayscale format. With the help of nefarious, I've found a way to get the image data out of my RAW files. Images coming soon!
I'm using Linux Mint 15 ("Olivia") for my pypeline development - and ran into a little difficulty
right off the bat getting pillow installed. Virtualenv and Virtualenvwrapper are pretty much a must-have if you're
developing multiple projects, and pip install pillow was failing with messages like
Python.h: No such file …
Since I plan on taking quite a few night sky pictures, I'd like to automate the process as much as possible. The project is hosted on github here. Right now it's essentially empty, but eventually features I'd like it to have: