Awesome-OpenSourcePhotography

A list of awesome free open source software & libraries for photography. Also tools for video. For more awesomeness, check out awesome.

• General
• Camera Firmware Mods
• Libraries
  • Canon
  • GoPro
  • Sony
• Utilities
• Analogue Photography
• RAW image developers
• HDR Specific Software
• Panorama Stitching
• Photo Organizers
• EXIF Editors
• Photo Downloaders
• Camera Tetherers
• Monitor Color Correction
• 360° Images
• Alternative Image Viewers
• Useful GIMP Mods or Scripts
• Communities
• Resources
• Video
  • General tools
  • Compositing software
  • Video Libraries
• Scripts
  • Video to Panorama

General

• GIMP - A swiss knife for image manipulation.
• PhotoFlow - A non-destructive photo retouching program including RAW image development.
• ImageMagick - A suite of command-line utilities for modifying and working with images.
• GraphicsMagick - GraphicsMagick is usually faster than ImageMagick.

Camera Firmware Mods

• CHDK - Canon Hack Development Kit, for Canon cameras.
• Magic Lantern - A software enhancement that offers increased functionality to Canon DSLR cameras.
• Autoexec Hack - Compilation of hacks for GoPro Cameras.
• PTool Firmware Manipulation Tool - Change the video recording parameters of Panasonic’s cameras.
• Nikon Hacker - Nikon Patch and Nikon Emulator, 2 softwares for Nikon cameras.
• Xiaomi Yi Autoexec - Compilation of autoexec scripts and mods for Xiaomi Yi camera.

Libraries

• LibGphoto2 - C APi for Digital camera access and remote control. Java,python,C#, and much more bindings.

Canon

• OfxCanon - OpenFrameworks addon for the Canon EDSK.
• Edsdk4j - Canon SDK for Java.

GoPro

• GoPro - API for controlling GoPro Hero 3 Camera from Node.js.
• GoPro - GoPro Hero 4 - Python API.
• GoPro - A Python library and a CLI that can interface with GoPro HERO3, HERO3+, and HERO4 cameras over http.
• GoPro.Hero - A lightweight c# library to access and control GoPro HERO.

Sony

• SonyPy - Python module for Sony Camera Remote API.

Utilities

• Timelapse-sony - Android app for creating timelapse via “Ctrl with Smartphone” mode or connected by NFC.
• Remoteyourcam-usb - Control your Canon or Nikon DSLR camera from your Android device through USB.
• digiCamControl - DSLR camera remote control open source software.

Analogue photography

• Digitaltruth - Film development chart.

RAW image developers

• Darktable - An open source photography workflow application and RAW developer.
• RawTherapee - A cross-platform raw image processing program.
• Photivo - A multi platform photo processor for RAW and bitmap images with 16 bit precision.
• Raw Studio - Read and manipulate RAW images from digital cameras.
• UFRaw - A utility to read and manipulate raw images from digital cameras.
• DCRaw - Decoding raw digital photos in Linux.
• Lightzone - Open-source digital darkroom software for Windows/Mac/Linux.
• Fotoxx - A Linux program for editing photos and other images.

HDR Specific Software

• Luminance - A complete workflow for HDR imaging.
• QPSFTMO - HDR Tone Mapping GUI for Linux.
• PFS Tools - A set of command line programs for reading, writing and manipulating HDR images and video frames.

Panorama Stitching

• Hugin - An easy to use cross-platform panoramic imaging toolchain.
• Panorama Tools - A framework for re-projecting and blending multiple source images into immersive panoramics of many types.

Photo Organizers

• Shotwell - A photo manager for GNOME 3.
• DigiKam/ShowFoto - Open Source Photo manager for KDE/Gnome desktop.
• GPhoto - A program and library framework that lets users download pictures from their digital cameras.
• Lychee - A great looking and easy-to-use photo-management-system you can run on your server, to manage and share photos.
• Simple Gallery - A Android gallery app for viewing photos and videos similar to android stock gallery with support for file copy/move/rename/delete/share.
• Leaf Pic - Material-designed android gallery alternative.
• A Photo Manager - Manage local photos on Android: gallery, geotag with photomap, tags, find, sort, view, copy, delete, send,…
• PhotoPrism - PhotoPrism™ is a server-based application for browsing, organizing and sharing your personal photo collection.

EXIF Editors

• ExifTool - A program for reading, writing, and manipulating image, audio, and video metadata.
• Exiv2 - Exiv2 is a C++ library and a command-line utility to read, write, delete and modify Exif, IPTC, XMP and ICC image metadata.

Photo Downloaders

• Rapid Photo Downloader - A photo and video downloader for the Linux Desktop.

Camera Tetherers

• Entangle - Entangle provides a GUI for taking photographs with a digital camera completely controlled from the computer.

Monitor Color Correction

• Hughski
• DisplayCal - Open source display calibration and characterization.

360° Images

• Open360viewer - Open source 360° media viewer.

Alternative Image Viewers

• Geeqie - An image viewer and image organiser program for Unix-like operating systems.
• FEH - An X11 image viewer.

Useful GIMP Mods or Scripts

• GIMP Plugin Registry
• Cinepaint - A program for painting and retouching bitmap frames of films based on GIMP.

Communities

• Flickr Open Source Photography Group
• /r/FOSSPhotography - Community about Free open source software for Photography on reddit.
• Open Source Photography Community on Google+
• Open Source Photography Group on Facebook
• Open Source Photography Sub on Reddit
• Open Source Photography Group on 500px
• PIXLS.US - Community dedicated to tutorials, workflows, and showcases of high-quality photography using Free Software tools

Resources

• Unsplash.com - Free (do whatever you want) high-resolution photos, licensed under the Unsplash License (changed from CC0)
• Pexels.com - Royalty free high-resolution stock photos, licensed under Creative Commons Zero (CC0)
• Pixabay.com - Royalty free stock photos and videos, licensed under Creative Commons Zero (CC0).
• Shutterography.com - Free Photos.

Video

General tools

• FFmpeg - A complete, cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video.
• Virtualdub - A free video tool for basic editing and encoding.

Compositing software

• Natron - A node-based compositor based on the same principles as state-of-the art tools used in film and television post-production.
• ButtleOFX - A simple, user-friendly and open source compositing software.
• Blender - This open source 3D graphics has tools for video editing.
• Shotcut - A free, open source, cross-platform video editor.

Video Libraries

• OpenFX - An Open Plug-in API for 2D Visual Effects.
• TuttleOFX - An image processing framework based on OpenFX plugin format.
• Vid.stab - A video stabilization library which can be plugged-in with Ffmpeg and Transcode.
• Frei0r - A large collection of free and portable video plugins.

Scripts

Video to Panorama

Using FFmpeg and Hugin.

#!/bin/bash
mkdir -p /tmp/images
ffmpeg -i video.avi -r 5 -qscale 3  tmp/images/image-%3d.jpg
pto_gen -o tmp/hugin.pto tmp/images/*.jpg
cpfind --multirow -o tmp/hugin.pto tmp/hugin.pto
cpclean -o tmp/hugin.pto tmp/hugin.pto
linefind -o tmp/hugin.pto tmp/hugin.pto
autooptimiser -a -l -s -m -o tmp/hugin.pto tmp/hugin.pto
pano_modify -o tmp/hugin.pto --center --fov=AUTO --canvas=70% tmp/hugin.pto
pto2mk -o tmp/hugin.mk -p tmp/output tmp/hugin.pto
make -f tmp/hugin.mk all