I would like to ask the Inat community thoughts about photo editing software. I take photos with Iphone 13 and want to do a few things: unfocus the background remove unwanted clutter on the photo It seems there is a huge range of free to very expensive editing suites. Can you please help me deci…

I think some edits like circles or cropping can be good but I’d strongly suggest against blurring background. The background adds context to the observation and also allows some verification the location is correct.

adobe lightroom also work fine, but it will take some time to learn the features

iPhone 13 has built-in photo editing. I have used iPhone Portrait Mode/Edit to blur or change the background for people portraits. I’ve not tried that for nature pics. Usually I just edit to crop, sharpen, fix exposure or brightness, add circles and arrows, etc. One advantage of editing and upload…

Before I used to add circles to highlight the organism in question, especially if there are more than one within the photo and/or if the subject is blurry (eg. bird on tree via iphone digital zoom), and I was told that adding circles may affect the computer vision somewhat, so I stopped and directed…

i don’t usually add circles, it isn’t required, it can be helpful in some cases.

I reorder my photos to put the (unambiguous) cropped view first. Followed by a wider view for scale, habitat, growth habit, whatever a biologist can glean.

[image] DianaStuder: For iNat simply cropped to show This Is What We Are Looking At Here That’s basically all I do as well. I might fiddle with the brightness and contrast, but that’s all. I just use Windows software. But I have a Cannon, not a phone, so I don’t know how that works.

I second zdanko’s recommendation of Gimp: it’s extremely powerful, versatile, and extensible software. It is cost free, open source, works offline, and runs well on both Microsoft Windows and on Linux (it also currently runs on Mac OS, but they’re having trouble finding developers who use Macs to wo…

I use Darktable and Gimp, but these are for people who like to spend a lot of time learning how to use it. If you’re an iPhone user, you’re almost guaranteed to be much happier buying Photoshop than using Gimp. It will be much easier to use, and you’ll have an easier time finding instructions to do…

I use Adobe Lightroom for managing my photos and for doing most of their post-processing. My work flow is: Copy files from camera or SD Card into Lightroom allowing it to place the photos in folders by year and date based on the capture date Apply tags to all inbound photos including location and …

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