awesome-OpenSourcePhotography

Photography toolkit

A comprehensive resource for developers working with photography and video equipment

A list of awesome free open source software & libraries for photography. Also tools for video.

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Awesome-OpenSourcePhotography / General
GIMP A swiss knife for image manipulation
PhotoFlow 319 over 4 years ago 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

Awesome-OpenSourcePhotography / 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 470 over 7 years ago 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 301 over 1 year ago Compilation of autoexec scripts and mods for Xiaomi Yi camera

Awesome-OpenSourcePhotography / Libraries
LibGphoto2 1,070 11 months ago C APi for Digital camera access and remote control. Java,python,C#, and much more bindings

Awesome-OpenSourcePhotography / Libraries / Canon
OfxCanon 45 almost 14 years ago OpenFrameworks addon for the Canon EDSK
Edsdk4j 110 over 2 years ago Canon SDK for Java

Awesome-OpenSourcePhotography / Libraries / GoPro
GoPro 134 over 12 years ago API for controlling GoPro Hero 3 Camera from Node.js
GoPro 86 over 8 years ago GoPro Hero 4 - Python API
GoPro 264 over 8 years ago A Python library and a CLI that can interface with GoPro HERO3, HERO3+, and HERO4 cameras over http
GoPro.Hero 59 over 3 years ago A lightweight c# library to access and control GoPro HERO

Awesome-OpenSourcePhotography / Libraries / Sony
SonyPy 60 almost 12 years ago Python module for Sony Camera Remote API

Awesome-OpenSourcePhotography / Utilities
Timelapse-sony 139 over 1 year ago Android app for creating timelapse via "Ctrl with Smartphone" mode or connected by NFC
Remoteyourcam-usb 282 about 6 years ago Control your Canon or Nikon DSLR camera from your Android device through USB
digiCamControl 675 11 months ago DSLR camera remote control open source software

Awesome-OpenSourcePhotography / Analogue photography
Digitaltruth Film development chart

Awesome-OpenSourcePhotography / 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 86 over 1 year ago 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

Awesome-OpenSourcePhotography / HDR Specific Software
Luminance 613 over 1 year ago 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

Awesome-OpenSourcePhotography / 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

Awesome-OpenSourcePhotography / 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 3,663 about 1 year ago 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 3,266 over 1 year ago Material-designed android gallery alternative
A Photo Manager 227 about 3 years ago 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

Awesome-OpenSourcePhotography / EXIF Editors
ExifTool A program for reading, writing, and manipulating image, audio, and video metadata
Exiv2 946 11 months ago Exiv2 is a C++ library and a command-line utility to read, write, delete and modify Exif, IPTC, XMP and ICC image metadata

Awesome-OpenSourcePhotography / Photo Downloaders
Rapid Photo Downloader A photo and video downloader for the Linux Desktop

Awesome-OpenSourcePhotography / Camera Tetherers
Entangle Entangle provides a GUI for taking photographs with a digital camera completely controlled from the computer

Awesome-OpenSourcePhotography / Monitor Color Correction
Hughski
DisplayCal Open source display calibration and characterization

Awesome-OpenSourcePhotography / 360° Images
Open360viewer 4 almost 3 years ago Open source 360° media viewer

Awesome-OpenSourcePhotography / Alternative Image Viewers
Geeqie An image viewer and image organiser program for Unix-like operating systems
FEH An X11 image viewer

Awesome-OpenSourcePhotography / Useful GIMP Mods or Scripts
GIMP Plugin Registry
Cinepaint A program for painting and retouching bitmap frames of films based on GIMP

Awesome-OpenSourcePhotography / 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

Awesome-OpenSourcePhotography / Resources
Unsplash.com Free (do whatever you want) high-resolution photos, under the Unsplash License ( )
Pexels.com Royalty free high-resolution stock photos, under Creative Commons Zero (CC0)
Pixabay.com Royalty free stock photos and videos, under Creative Commons Zero (CC0)
Shutterography.com Free Photos

Awesome-OpenSourcePhotography / 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

Awesome-OpenSourcePhotography / Video / Compositing software
Natron 1,489 about 7 years ago A node-based compositor based on the same principles as state-of-the art tools used in film and television post-production
ButtleOFX 91 about 8 years ago A simple, user-friendly and open source compositing software
Blender This open source 3D graphics has tools for video editing
Shotcut 11,220 11 months ago A free, open source, cross-platform video editor

Awesome-OpenSourcePhotography / Video / Video Libraries
OpenFX An Open Plug-in API for 2D Visual Effects
TuttleOFX 180 about 5 years ago An image processing framework based on OpenFX plugin format
Vid.stab 861 over 1 year ago A video stabilization library which can be plugged-in with Ffmpeg and Transcode
Frei0r 452 12 months ago A large collection of free and portable video plugins

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