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How can I rename photos using EXIF data?

The exiftool command line utility (from the package of the same name) reads and writes EXIF information. The “writing” can include renaming the file. There are examples in the manual under “Renaming ...
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Free photo editor for Windows

Having an Explorer window which you switch to with alt-tab and drag&dropping Images to GIMP (which can even be combined with alt-tab) is what I would suggest.
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I want a Windows compatible photo viewer that can do fullscreen without doing a slideshow

Irfanview is a great photo viewer. It will show individual photos, it has full screen display or part screen with menus and toolbars. It has 'next' and 'previous' photo commands in both modes. It can ...
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Normal photo-stitching software?

Hugin is a tool-chain that allows you to stitch photographs together and despite it the use of the word Panorama in the title bar it does not just do panoramas. To cover your points: Its primary ...
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Free replacement for Picasa Desktop (photo manager, no cloud)

Xn View XnView is organized as freeware for private non-commercial or educational use is really a utility for viewing and converting graphic files. It supports Image IPTC, EXIF metadata, EXIF auto ...
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Smartphone camera app that take square photographs

The default iPhone Camera App has a square mode:
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Open source 3D imageviewer for Multi Picture Object (.mpo) files (Linux)

This programs can show mpo files in defferent formats: https://stereophotoview.bitbucket.io/en/ http://www.sview.ru/en/
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Android app for quickly tagging/grouping photos by drag/click

There are multiple gallery apps sporting a tagging feature the one or the other way – though I know of none that would be a perfect match for you. However, some come real close. Note that I've not ...
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How can I rename photos using EXIF data?

Before Gilles submitted this excellent answer, I was experimenting with pyRenamer, a GUI tool written in Python. It allows renaming of files en masse based on portions of their existing file names, as ...
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Star trail software

Lots of tutorials on the net for how to make star trails using gimp which is a free, open source, cross platform and very powerful photo editing tool. One that I found that was nice and concise was ...
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Software for recognizing modified images?

Most of these tools are digital forensics software and one would need to be an expert in that field in order to use it. It is expensive and it isn't automated software. The better solution, in my ...
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Replacement for Picasa that respects my folder layout

After extensive research and searching, I've found the open-source tool Digikam meets all my requirements and many more - it's a very impressive tool. It works on Windows, Mac, and Linux. It ...
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Open source 3D imageviewer for Multi Picture Object (.mpo) files (Linux)

A quick search does not present any results for a viewer to display .MPO files in anaglyph form. This would be due to the original method of creation. The .MPO type was created to accept images ...
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Open source 3D imageviewer for Multi Picture Object (.mpo) files (Linux)

On Ubuntu you can use exiftool to extract the two images: sudo apt-get install libimage-exiftool-perl exiftool -b -mpimage2 input.mpo > left.jpg exiftool -trailer:all= input.mpo -o right.jpg (See ...
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Is there software that can search my photo collection by content?

I can't think of any offline software that would serve all of your specific needs. There are multiple programs(picasa, adobe elements, etc.) that can tag faces in photos, but no more than that. It ...
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Automatic photo classification for desktop

Not a desktop Application as such but the Keras python Deep Learning library with OpenCV is now available pre-trained for image recognition there is a very good walk-through with all of the necessary ...
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Remove passers-by from picture, by taking the same picture several times

Hugin Pros: Gratis Runs on Linux No (big) quality loss Can align images Cons: Some manual work involved Howto: Add the photos to a new project and put them all in a single image stack. You will ...
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Extract individual headshots from group photo

Thanks to @StarGeek (relevant Reddit post), I was able to write a small script for this. To get the environment set up in Python 3 (on a Windows 10 machine using Anaconda), I went through the ...
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Photogrammetry tool to create 3D model of glasses (transparent, reflective, homegeneous object)

You may find that you can apply a chalk spray to the object to create a suitable surface for photogrammetry. Many image scanning devices for 3D modeling have problems with transparent and reflective ...
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Image stacking and averaging tool for Windows

Hugin as well as the panorama stitching that everybody knows it for can do: Exposure Correction, White Balance Correction, Exposure stacking with alignment so you don't have to have used a tripod ...
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Android camera that records accelerometer/gyroscope information

Open Camera has these options under Settings → Location settings… Store compass direction Store yaw, pitch, and roll It gets saved in the EXIF as User comment : Yaw:88.52357,...
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Online photo contest organizer

It's been a while, but I have an online solution that could help others. I am one of the developers of https://pollunit.com and with our tool you can create polls about pictures. This is an example ...
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What simple open source photo/image editors exist there on android?

Phimp.me has the cropping/rotating features you mention, in addition to a wide range of other features. I haven't found a resize feature yet, though I haven't looked hard. There is apparently a ...
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What simple open source photo/image editors exist there on android?

Can't do photo resizing but the Gallery app from LineageOS, based on AOSP, does have cropping, rotation, and filters. I don't know if this source code is up to date, though, but it does look and work ...
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Photo metadata software

tl;dr: Use digiKam, edit the settings so it saves metadata to image files themselves, use the caption field. I researched this a little a few months ago. Here is what I came up with. There are ...
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Taking unblurry pictures with Parkinson on Android

You need an application that has the following features: Burst mode: takes a series of pictures very quickly Sport or high speed mode: reads pictures very quickly I recommend the app High-Speed ...
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Google Photos alternative

How about flickr? Has an Android app plenty of space (1T) when deleting photo, it will warn you about permanently delete optionally, can organise photos in albums.
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Android app that takes a picture every X second

For an easy solution, checkout Microsoft Hyperlapse Mobile This app creates a hyper lapse (movie) for you, without you having to pull the pictures off of your phone and upload them and create a ...
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Photo manager - alternative to Picasa

Candidates: IMatch https://www.photools.com/ It's a fairly decent DAM and has provisions for broad use.
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Software to organize photos with details

1. Magix Photo Manager Magix Photo Manager comes with a slew of handy features for worry free management of your photos. It has a nice stable user interface and comes with a import feature using ...
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