Can someone help tell me this type of lightning

[gdlewen]

Personally, I use Adobe Lightroom for all of my editing and processing...however, unless it's a raw image file, you won't be able to do much with it. GIMP is pretty useless. You can do some image/color correction in Lightroom, as well....but it's a bit of work.

I think Adobe products are fantastic for image processing, and I have used them in the past when available. But alas! they are not free.

The goal here is a zero-budget solution to the problem of recovering lightning imagery from problematic video like iPhone video, using only open source software: OpenCV... ImageMagick... Gimp... RawTherapee.. FFMPEG, etc.

More work, maybe, but...well...free. And lots of learning along the way.


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This is not going to win any awards, but as an amateur (one who's does something for the love of it), the challenge is the thing.

 

[Laney Cole]

Personally, I use Adobe Lightroom for all of my editing and processing...however, unless it's a raw image file, you won't be able to do much with it. GIMP is pretty useless. You can do some image/color correction in Lightroom, as well....but it's a bit of work.

Appreciate your input!
Adobe Lightroom is fantastic- however it doesn’t allow you to stack images.
I took video of lightning and wanted to transform it into a photo of the entire sequence. While saving the most image quality along the way.
It was a question that turned into a weeks long dive into programs like Gimp.
The results were pretty good, GDLewen has been an excellent help.

 

[AmboyRoy]

Appreciate your input!
Adobe Lightroom is fantastic- however it doesn’t allow you to stack images.
I took video of lightning and wanted to transform it into a photo of the entire sequence. While saving the most image quality along the way.
It was a question that turned into a weeks long dive into programs like Gimp.
The results were pretty good, GDLewen has been an excellent help.

Actually, you can stack images in Lightroom....I do it all the time, creating my HDR images

 

[Laney Cole]

Actually, you can stack images in Lightroom....I do it all the time, creating my HDR images

Ohhh Really? I didn’t know that.
I am going to have to play around with it some more. I’ve never had a reason before so…
Thanks for letting me know!

 

[AmboyRoy]

Ohhh Really? I didn’t know that.
I am going to have to play around with it some more. I’ve never had a reason before so…
Thanks for letting me know!

I won't use anything else. I still use the last version released, before they started that subscription garbage

 

[Laney Cole]

I won't use anything else. I still use the last version released, before they started that subscription garbage

That explains it, then. I vaguely remember Lightroom having that prior to the subscription option.
Some of the newer functions- like presets- and AI removal I enjoy. But the range of functionality has greatly reduced from the pre-subscription option (I.e. Lightroom of the late 00s into the 2010s).
Not to mention it’s hard to justify $60/mo for something I once owned, especially now that most of my work is hobbyist now. I really wish I had thought to back up my original copy as you did.

 

[AmboyRoy]

That explains it, then. I vaguely remember Lightroom having that prior to the subscription option.
Some of the newer functions- like presets- and AI removal I enjoy. But the range of functionality has greatly reduced from the pre-subscription option (I.e. Lightroom of the late 00s into the 2010s).
Not to mention it’s hard to justify $60/mo for something I once owned, especially now that most of my work is hobbyist now. I really wish I had thought to back up my original copy as you did.

I still have a ton of presets/templates to play with.....mostly a lot of different vintage film types (the Ektachrome slide film is great for that late 60s/early 70s travel photo look)....I have no use for any of the AI stuff. I first bought Lightroom in 2013.....got 2 or 3 updates, before they started the subscription...been sticking with that, ever since. $160 investment was way better than the $1100 for Photochop (yes, I know)....that's way too bloated with a bunch of useless garbage.