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Photo software
Apr. 24th, 2022 09:02 pmHumble Bundle have another offer for photo software that's worth looking at if you like that sort of thing.
If you download and register whatever's free at the Franzis site you will get emails with offers for the rest of their range - this is better than any of those.
In one sense, it's even better than Humble say: interestingly the 'MSRP' that they give ($69 each for the Projects range) is less than the $99 that Franzis would charge you if you don't wait for any sale! Ah, these are the 'normal' versions of the programs, not the 'professional' ones, so most don't come with Photoshop / Lightroom plugins or batch processing, and have a handful fewer (eg 132 rather than 138) filters. The page I can only find in German also reckons that they won't do RAW images.. except that they do. (It's possible that there's some aspect of that that they don't do, but if you use RAW images you undoubtedly have something that 'develops' them already and the results of that can be sent to these.)
Arguably, HDR + Color + Black & White + Analog Presets should be one program - I think the HDR one does more than the others, but I don't think the others have anything unique about them, so it's just the supplied presets that are different. Similarly, Focus + Neat are very similar in many ways (and like an option with HDR, both work with a sequence of photos of the same thing).
But even so, I think this is a bargain. I had got an earlier version of HDR Projects free from the site and was being tempted by an offer for all of them for about $99.
About my only moan is that HDR Projects won't really do batch processing - 'do this to all these photos' - in the way I would like because it tries to be clever and go 'Oh, this sequence of photos is clearly a series of photos with different exposure settings that the user wants me to combine into one' if it thinks the pictures are similar enough. (Per the edit above, this turns out not to be a problem, because this version won't do batch processing.)
I could do that (and I have other software that does that) but usually I just want it to look at a series of RAW files with everything the camera's sensor saw and produce a better looking JPEG than the camera does.. for each of them. I took some photos of a dance at the town hall in February, and because they looked similar to the program, it combined most of them, producing several shots of translucent ghosts dancing...
When it's behaving, the results are a very interesting contrast to those produced by Aurora HDR (which can be told 'yes, combine all these into one' or 'each of these is a standalone image, OK') - sometimes one is better, sometimes the other.
Anyway, this is recommended to anyone taking lots of photos. This offer might disappear in about 17 days or it might reappear for a couple of weeks after that - Humble have started instantly repeating some (but not all) bundles.
To give more to charity, you need to click on 'adjust donation'. If you then pick 'custom amount', you can set the donation to the maximum Humble will currently allow. (They used to let you give 100% of it, but for the past few months you can't give them less than about 30% of the money. That's meant I've always minimised their cut to that.)
The looking for the 'professional' / 'these' differences has reminded me that the current offer is $49 for all the professional versions, including the one program - Denoise - that's not in this offer, but not including the HDR presets. So it's still a definite saving over that for things that aren't noticeably less useful in practice.
If you download and register whatever's free at the Franzis site you will get emails with offers for the rest of their range - this is better than any of those.
Arguably, HDR + Color + Black & White + Analog Presets should be one program - I think the HDR one does more than the others, but I don't think the others have anything unique about them, so it's just the supplied presets that are different. Similarly, Focus + Neat are very similar in many ways (and like an option with HDR, both work with a sequence of photos of the same thing).
But even so, I think this is a bargain. I had got an earlier version of HDR Projects free from the site and was being tempted by an offer for all of them for about $99.
About my only moan is that HDR Projects won't really do batch processing - 'do this to all these photos' - in the way I would like because it tries to be clever and go 'Oh, this sequence of photos is clearly a series of photos with different exposure settings that the user wants me to combine into one' if it thinks the pictures are similar enough. (Per the edit above, this turns out not to be a problem, because this version won't do batch processing.)
I could do that (and I have other software that does that) but usually I just want it to look at a series of RAW files with everything the camera's sensor saw and produce a better looking JPEG than the camera does.. for each of them. I took some photos of a dance at the town hall in February, and because they looked similar to the program, it combined most of them, producing several shots of translucent ghosts dancing...
When it's behaving, the results are a very interesting contrast to those produced by Aurora HDR (which can be told 'yes, combine all these into one' or 'each of these is a standalone image, OK') - sometimes one is better, sometimes the other.
Anyway, this is recommended to anyone taking lots of photos. This offer might disappear in about 17 days or it might reappear for a couple of weeks after that - Humble have started instantly repeating some (but not all) bundles.
To give more to charity, you need to click on 'adjust donation'. If you then pick 'custom amount', you can set the donation to the maximum Humble will currently allow. (They used to let you give 100% of it, but for the past few months you can't give them less than about 30% of the money. That's meant I've always minimised their cut to that.)
The looking for the 'professional' / 'these' differences has reminded me that the current offer is $49 for all the professional versions, including the one program - Denoise - that's not in this offer, but not including the HDR presets. So it's still a definite saving over that for things that aren't noticeably less useful in practice.