v0.4 is out. a Java player has been added for live view ! most commands are there

To test this :

• download the attached zip file (last version is v0.4) , and decompress it wherever you want
• for the live view to work, you need :
  • Java RE : download here : http://java.com/en/download/index.jsp
  • Add the java bin directory to your PATH, see here : http://www.java.com/en/download/help/path.xml. On a windows machine, the Java bin directory should be : C:\Program Files\Java\jre7\bin
• start the Wifi on your GH3, "new connection/remote shooting" (it works also if you connect through a Wifi AP, you just need to find the IP address of the GH3)
  • if you're using a direct connection you can launch the "Control.html" file after you connected your PC/MAC to the GH3 network
  • if you're using a Wifi access point, you have to find/replace all the "192.168.0.1" in the "requests.html" file with the IP address of the GH3 before launching the "Control.html" file
• if you want to use the live view on a Windows PC launch control.bat instead of control.html (see above for Java installation). If you're using a MAC, you have to find a way to launch UDPServer with Java, I don't know if it works

• play with the different settings and commands

• To take a picture, use the shooting button (you can do continuous shooting with press&hold if the dial is in that mode)

• To start a recording press "record"

• manual focusing uses press&hold buttons with 2 speeds, you can play with the interval between 2 successive focusing actions with the input fields on top of the 4 focus buttons.

• The zoom uses press&hold buttons, with 2 speeds (for PZ lenses of course)

Some commands will not work depending on the selected mode on the dial (ie focal in S mode)

The screen goes black quite often, just take a picture or half press the shutter button to turn it on again. But now that live view works (on Windows at least), you shouldn't have to look at the GH3 LCD anymore.

If the GH3 freeze, you may have to take the battery out (may happend if you use a feature non supported by the selected mode on the dials)

To properly interrupt the connection, just "terminate" it on the GH3 menu

You can stop the video recording using "playmode" (which is the command to display the photo on Lumix Link).I didn't look at the files generated when you do that, if someone could look at the integrity of the video file after this abrupt stop, it would be useful. You have to press "recmode" to control the gh3 again.

Clarification :

This is a PoC. I'm not a developer, and won't spend much time on future version. someone with some basic web dev skills will be able to do a much better job in no time; He just has to look at the code, and eventually ask me.

https://borisfx.com/products/optics/?collection=optics&product=optics

Supported cameras:

• GoPro (HERO 5 and later)
• Sony (a1, a7c, a7r IV, a7 IV, a7s III, a9 II, FX3, FX6, RX0 II, RX100 VII, ZV1, ZV-E10)
• Insta360 (OneR, SMO 4k, GO2)
• Betaflight blackbox (CSV and binary)
• Mobile apps: Sensor Logger, G-Field Recorder, Gyro
• Runcam CSV (Runcam 5 Orange, iFlight GOCam GR)
• WitMotion (WT901SDCL binary and *.txt)

Main New Features

• Annotations
• Export with Assets
• Improved “Back-up And Restore” mechanism for Catalogs
• Duplicate checker for the Importer
• LAB Readouts
• Levels as a Layer Adjustment
• Color Balance as a Layer Adjustment
• Create new Filled Layer
• Presets for Layer capable tools
• Master Layer Opacity
• Feather Mask
• Refine Mask Edge
• Clear Mask
• Greyscale Mask preview mode
• Expanded AppleScript

https://www.phaseone.com/11

Adobe Photoshop CC + Adobe Photoshop Lightroom and 5. 20GB of storage. Video tutorials.

$9.99 a month. And they have no plans on raising it.

http://www.adobe.com/en/products/photoshop.html

They also haves CyberLink's Director Suite 365, that contain PhotoDirector and other three software products also with subscription model only.

https://topazlabs.com/denoise-ai/

Lightroom CC is now available as part of an Adobe Creative Cloud Photography subscription ($9.99 per month) or as the equivalent standalone $149 perpetual-license Lightroom 6 application. But the single purchase option won't include syncing photos to Adobe's mobile apps, such as Lightroom Mobile, Slate, and Voice. Adobe uses a smaller-footprint version of the photo file called Smart Preview for transmitting to Web and devices, so bandwidth and storage aren't taxed unnecessarily.

Lightroom CC - https://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop-lightroom.html?PID=3485381
It is part of their Photo plan

Lightroom 6 - http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop-lightroom.html?PID=5405339
http://www.adorama.com/AB65237578.html

It is too widespread and used by too many different people.

What alternatives you know? I mean here full fledged photo editors with modern cameras raw support, layers, etc.

Updated for 2016.

PhotoLine 19.51

Has 16bit support, vecor tools, Mac/PC versions, 64bit version. Works as portable on your USB stick, if you like. Small and fast.

• Both Mac and PC support, works on Windows XP and up
• $60, 59 EUR - http://www.pl32.com/

Sherif PhotoPlus X8

• $89 - http://www.serif.com/photoplus/
• Free edition at http://www.serif.com/free-photo-editing-software/

Affinity Photo 1.4

Mostly Mac editor, but now also beta version for PC exist.

• Mac OS X 10.7.5 or later, Windows 7 and up
• $49.99 at http://www.affinity.serif.com

Sagelight Editor

• Advanced editor with unique interface
• Lifetime version of Sagelight for $39.95

• Development stopped as of 2016, developer lost

• http://www.sagelighteditor.com/

GIMP

• Free - http://www.gimp.org/

Corel PaintShop Pro X9

• From $59 - http://www.paintshoppro.com/en/products/paintshop-pro/ultimate/

Acorn

• Mac, http://www.flyingmeat.com/acorn/
• $30 - https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/acorn-4-image-editor-for-humans/id634108295?ls=1&mt=12

Pixelmator 3.5

Mac only editor.

• Mac OS X 10.9.5 or later
• $30 at www.pixelmator.com

CyberLink PhotoDirector Ultra 7

• Mac OS X 10.7, Windows 7
• Deluxe ($49.99), Ultra ($144.99), and Suite ($199.95) , info at http://www.cyberlink.com

Corel AfterShot Pro 3

It is less editor and more Lightroom like thing.

• Mac OSX 10.9 or later, Windows 7 SP1
• $80, at http://www.aftershotpro.com

Adobe Photoshop Elements 14

So called consumer editor.

• Macs OS X 10.9.5 or later, Windows 7 SP1
• $100 at http://www.adobe.com

Windows users can now download the long-awaited Affinity Photo, with the launch of a free public beta.

It’s the first opportunity for PC users to experience the speed, power and precision of the award-winning professional image editor.

Chosen as Apple’s ‘App of the Year’ 2015, and ‘Best Imaging Software’ 2016 by the Technical Image Press Association, Affinity Photo for Mac has received thousands of 5-star reviews from professional photographers, editors, artists and retouchers around the world.

The Windows version matches it feature-for-feature and the public beta offers users the chance to try it free of charge before the full version goes on sale.

Ashley Hewson, Managing Director of Affinity developer Serif, says: “When we started developing our Affinity apps nearly seven years ago one of the key aims was to be cross-platform, so this is a huge milestone for us. Because we did plan this from the beginning we made nearly all of our back-end code – the core engine of Affinity, if you like – completely operating system independent.

“This not only means that file compatibility between the two platforms is 100% perfect, but all the power, performance, tools and accuracy which have really set us apart on Mac are there for Windows users to enjoy now too.”

Affinity Photo’s awe-inspiring range of tools work in real time, so there’s no waiting to see results. Non-destructive editing, RAW processing and end-to-end colour management are standard, so Affinity Photo has all the accuracy and quality necessary to make beautiful images spring to life.

Participants will be excited to know that the beta version includes a host of powerful new features to be made available in Affinity Photo’s next major update, v1.5.

They include:

• Advanced HDR merge producing full 32-bit linear colour space images
• Focus stacking to bring depth to multiple combined images
• Batch processing for smoother, faster workflow
• An all-new way to edit 360 degree images

The beta period also offers Affinity’s developers the chance to perfect the product before its full launch, and users are encouraged to share their feedback.

Naturally, Affinity Photo works perfectly with Serif’s stunning graphics editor Affinity Designer, sharing a common file type and shared save history. Affinity Designer for Windows is on the verge of full release.

Windows prices will match Affinity’s subscription-free Mac pricing ethos, with a one-off payment of $49.99 / £39.99 / €49.99 covering future updates.

For more information about Affinity Photo: https://affinity.serif.com/photo

To sign up for the beta: https://affinity.serif.com/photo/windows

New Luminar engine to allow users to apply lots of different tools to an image without significant performance loss.
Luminar Neo works faster than previous versions of Luminar when importing, viewing, and exporting images, and it uses less memory all around.

Innovative technologies:

• Transform photos with new relighting options. Luminar Neo analyzes each image to recognize the depth of a scene and its subject which allows precise control over exposure and tone.
• Remove blemishes and distracting elements. Luminar Neo automatically recognizes and removes artifacts caused by a dirty camera sensor or lens. New tools make removing unwanted background elements easier than ever before.
• Powerful background replacement. Take full control of the background for portrait photos by quickly replacing it with an all-new image or background.
• Round-trip mobile image management. Our new companion mobile app makes it simple to add pictures captured on a mobile device to your Luminar Catalog. Once edited in Luminar Neo, results can be sent back to the mobile device for easy social sharing or viewing on the go.
• Precise control with flexible editing:
  • Smart, AI-based masking easily isolates elements in individual images.
  • Add numerous images as layers to create entirely new art.
  • Apply any tool and any mask … to any layer, in any order, multiple times.
  • Use creative blending modes, guided by AI, to achieve clean, precise, composite images.

https://skylum.com/luminar-neo

https://skylum.com/luminar-ai

If we haven't already been acquainted, I'm Eric, CEO of Topaz Labs. I hope you're off to a great start in 2020. I have an announcement that may seem like bad news at first, but will end up being good news in the long run:

Starting in August 2020, we will charge for product upgrades to DeNoise AI, Sharpen AI, Gigapixel AI, and Mask AI.

Every company says that they value their customers. When we started Topaz Labs many years ago, we tried hard to figure out ways to show this through actions instead of just words. One of the ways we did this was by offering free major upgrades for all of our products. Conceptually, this felt really good to us; we loved the idea of acting differently than faceless corporations by giving ongoing value for free instead of charging for every little thing.

Within the last few years, though, we started to realize something. Product development and research is expensive! It turns out that if we can only earn money by releasing new products, there's a very powerful internal incentive to only do that. Despite our best intentions, we found that we weren't focusing as much as we wanted on improving our existing products. We ended up with several different products that did similar things, which caused confusion about which tool to use. Although it started out with good intentions, our free upgrade policy ultimately prevented us from delivering the best possible products to you.

Make no mistake about it: this situation was 100% our fault. We were not thoughtful enough about aligning our pricing structure with continuous improvement of our products. Since realizing this, we took some major steps to improve in 2019:

1. Consolidated all of our offerings into a single product per category (noise reduction, sharpening, effect creation, etc.)
2. Massively shifted our internal goals to prioritize improving existing products over releasing new ones
3. Stopped advertising free upgrades as a policy

Despite not advertising it anymore, in 2019 alone we were proud to give away over $8M worth of claimed free upgrades to major new products like DeNoise 6 => DeNoise AI, InFocus => Sharpen AI, Adjust 6 => Adjust AI, and Studio 2. We've already seen a major improvement in the usefulness and experience of our products, and we're excited to continue down this path in 2020 and beyond.

The next step is to actually move to paid upgrades to finally align our pricing policy with how we want to build products as a company. Basically: it's our fault, yet I'm asking you to lock arms with us and walk through this phase of our development by accepting this change. I know it's a lot to ask for, but I hope you can agree that this path really is best for continued improvements to the products that we hope you've grown to rely upon.

Here's how it will work:

Upgrade license renewals

• After buying a product for the first time, you'll receive 1 year of free major + minor upgrades from your date of purchase.
• After your first year of free upgrades is complete, you can buy another year at any time in the future - for any single product for $49.99. If you own multiple products, you can activate a year of account-wide upgrades for $99.99.
• Only DeNoise, Sharpen, Gigapixel, and Mask will require an upgrade license in 2020. Other products remain under the old policy.

We want you to own your software instead of having to pay to keep accessing it. Once you buy one of our products, you can keep using your purchased version as long as you want regardless of upgrade status. We're really proud that some of you have continued to trust our products for over a decade after buying it once, and we'd love for this to continue.

Similarly, you should also be able to choose when to upgrade and not be penalized for it. If you don't think a certain upgrade is worth it, don't renew your upgrade license just yet. Wait until it actually includes something you want to pay for. This also incentivizes us to make sure that the improvements we do implement are useful enough for you to upgrade.

Example

As an example, let's say you buy Gigapixel AI for the first time today (2/13/2020), so you receive free upgrades to Gigapixel AI until 2/13/2021.

We then release Gigapixel v4.5 in March, v5 in May, v5.1 in August, and v5.2 in December 2020. You receive all these upgrades for free as part of your initial 1-year upgrade license.

Now imagine we release Gigapixel v5.3 in May 2021 and you decide it's not worth it. Even though your upgrade license has expired, you can continue using Gigapixel v5.2 (your last owned version) for as long as you like.

Gigapixel v5.3 in May 2021 has a feature you really want, so you purchase an upgrade then. You receive Gigapixel v5.3 and another year of free upgrades starting from the time you purchased the upgrade until May 2022.

Existing customers

For the listed products above, existing customers have an upgrade license starting from a year since they purchased. For example, if you bought DeNoise AI in November 2019, your upgrade license will last until November 2020.

That said, we thought it'd be unfair to immediately expire licenses for people that have purchased over a year ago. So for anyone in this situation, we're extending a minimum 6 months of upgrade licenses. Even if you first bought our products years ago, the earliest you'd possibly need to pay for an upgrade is in August 2020.

Starting soon, you'll be able to see the remaining time on your upgrade licenses in your Account.

Why?

I know this is a major shift. We've offered free upgrades for so long that it's become part of what we're known for. I guess this change all comes down to a single core idea: to be truly useful to you, we believe we should be offering fewer products that go deeper rather than a buffet of shallow products.

In other words, we don't want to offer you novelties that you'll stop using after a month. Instead, if you buy DeNoise AI, we want to help you handle noise reduction forever through our software. This means constantly evaluating and adding the most promising cutting-edge noise reduction techniques, relentlessly improving integration with your workflow, and continually adding major new functionality like batch processing (just released!) and selections. You shouldn't have to worry about noise reduction ever again... or at the very least, you should be able to rely on us to worry about it for you. Paid upgrades are necessary for us to support this kind of deep focus.

Again, this was not a quick or easy decision to make, but we think it's a necessary one in order for us to deliver massive value for you in the future. All I ask of you is that you give us a chance to prove this through our product improvements in 2020 and beyond.

Thanks so much,

Eric Yang
CEO, Topaz Labs

https://www.descript.com

PARIS -- June 6, 2018 -- DxO, one of the world's most innovative consumer imaging companies, today announced the immediate availability of the Nik Collection 2018 by DxO, an updated suite of Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop plugins for photographers and creative professionals. Eagerly awaited by the user community, this "by DxO" update marks the return to the market of the Nik Collection with the first stable version and with customer support. Also available today, DxO PhotoLab 1.2, an update of DxO's acclaimed RAW and JPEG image processing software, adds new local correction features and adds support for seven additional cameras.

Nik Collection 2018 by DxO: Better user experience and stability

Since the acquisition of the Nik Collection from Google in late 2017, the DxO development team has spent several months analyzing and optimizing the code of the seven plugins that make up the software suite to make them stable and operational. "The process was long and complex," explained Bruno Sayakhom, Product Owner at DxO. "It was necessary to recover and recompile source code that had not been maintained for a long time in order to make it compatible with the latest versions of Adobe products and the latest Apple OS updates. This is a first step that allows us to start afresh."

The Nik Collection 2018 by DxO is now fully functional and compatible with all 64-bit Windows and Mac platforms, as well as with Adobe Lightroom Classic CC, Photoshop CC 2018, and Photoshop Elements 2017/2018. In addition, DxO now provides support in four languages on its website (http://nikcollection.dxo.com/), which will soon include exclusive tutorials. The software suite update, including the seven plugins, is now available in 13 languages, and includes a free 30-day trial period.

"We are proud to relaunch the Nik Collection, which users have been waiting for," said Jean-Marc Alexia, DxO's VP of Product Strategy and Marketing. "We have put all of our know-how into offering photographers and creative artists the best possible user experience. This is just the first step: using Uservoice-type surveys, we will be reaching out to the user community, from whom we greatly desire to gather feedback about their experiences and gain insight into their expectations." Designed for expert photographers and graphic designers, the Nik Collection includes seven powerful plugins for Adobe Lightroom, Photoshop, and Photoshop Elements that offer a full range of creative effects and filters:

• Analog Efex Pro applies analog film, camera and lens simulations to digital photos.
• Color Efex Pro includes a set of filters for color correction, touch-up, and creative effects.\ Dfine reduces the noise of digital images by analyzing the specificities of each device.
• HDR Efex Pro processes images in HDR.
• Sharpener Pro increases the accuracy and enhances the detail of digital images.
• Silver Efex Pro is a black and white image conversion solution inspired by darkroom techniques.
• Viveza locally adjusts the color and tone of specific areas of the image.

Thanks to exclusive U Point technology, the Nik Collection plugins allow you to apply local settings to specific areas in a fluid and precise way.

The Nik Collection 2018 by DxO is available for download on the DxO website (http://shop.dxo.com/us/photo-software/dxo-nikcollection) for $49.99 / £39.99 / €49.99 instead of $69 / £59 / €69 until July 1st, 2018.

https://www.acdsee.com/en/products/gemstone-photo-editor/

NX Field offers remote control in mixed environments. Users can control remote cameras 'easily and intuitively' from a portable smart device with minimum lag. The app supports wireless 5G and wired LAN networks. With wired LAN, data upload to FTP is promised to be very fast. Since NX Field can connect to remote FTP servers, the software will allow sports and news photographers to quickly get their images to a remote location, allowing for faster publishing.

https://nps.nikonimaging.com/nx_field/manual.htm#NX_Field

https://topazlabs.com/ai-gigapixel/

Mumbo-jumbo language with "quantum-based RAW image compression". Its can compress RAW file data sizes by up to 80% without quality loss.
Yes, it is magic without logic, live with it, and bring them your money. No one will notice that they use usual HEVC like compression (or even worse) anyway.

https://rawsie.co/

https://www.prosya.com/software/free-plugins/

ProjectInfo Effect :- ProjectInfo Effect allows the user to view all the Project settings and media metadata in a single viewer. To use it, download exiftool - https://www.exiftool.org/ and save in a convenient location on your hdd.

Importer Effect :- Importer Effect provides the ability to import certain unsupported file formats. Unsupported formats include SVG, PPM, PGM, PBM, XBM, XPM and HTML. JPEG, GIF, PNG and BMP support is included in order to support quick operations on these files.

Matte Effect :- Matte Effect is a free effect that creates a boolean bitmap. Certain effects require the usage of a hidden layer as a matte. Matte selection controls are common to such effects.

If you want a simple plugin, I can code it and offer it here.

New Luminar 2018 delivers a breakthrough photo editing experience for photographers on Mac & Windows with new filters, tools, non-destructive editing, major speed boosts, and a digital asset management platform that will arrive in 2018.

Macphun, the California-based software developer today announced Luminar 2018. New users will be able to purchase Luminar 2018 for $59, and current users of Luminar may upgrade at a special price of $39. Preorders start November 1 at www.macphun.com/luminar.

Luminar 2018 offers everything a modern photographer needs for photo editing, including new filters powered by artificial intelligence, major speed improvements, a dedicated RAW develop module and a forthcoming in 2018 digital asset management platform. Users will also benefit from the new intelligent Sun Rays filter, LUT support, and real-time noise removal. With adaptive workspaces that match styles of shooting, Luminar adapts to deliver a complete experience that avoids clutter and complexity.

Luminar 2018 has been re-built from the ground up for dramatic performance boosts. Existing filters deliver richer colors and depth in less time. A brand new streamlined user interface speeds up working with presets, filters, and masks. With full support of pro options like layers, masks, and blending modes, complex repairs and photo composites can be easily accomplished.

And, importantly, Luminar works on both Mac- and Windows-based desktop computers*.

“We’ve taken the time to listen to photographers, and what they want is performance and quality. The less time photographers have to spend in front of computers, the more time they have for taking pictures,” said Alex Tsepko, CEO of Macphun. “Our mission is to get Luminar streamlined with just the tools and controls photographers need. The goal is simple: enable the best-looking images with the least amount of effort.”

Luminar offers a new RAW Engine that can handle high-quality images faster. Plus, it's easy to solve image problems caused by camera lenses with Lens Correction features that resolve vignette, distortion, and color aberrations. If the photo has unwanted perspective problems, a new Transform tool can quickly solve them.

Instead of stuffing menus with boring effects and old technology, Luminar only puts in filters that photographers want and need. Luminar offers more than 40 filters to correct color, sharpen details, and release creativity. New filters include the ability to enhance color with Brilliance, selectively lighten or darken specific areas of an image with Dodge & Burn, as well as the ability to change the lighting in a photo with Sun Rays.

Want a whole new way to stylize images? Try the new Lookup Table adjustments, known as LUTs**. Creative color, perfect black and white conversions, and even digital films stocks are just a click away. Lightroom users who rely on custom presets created for Lightroom can also easily convert those presets into LUTs (with a free 3rd party tool) and use them inside of Luminar 2018.

Luminar 2018 will become available in November 2017, and in 2018 a free update will provide a new image browser/digital asset manager to help photographers manage their image libraries.

Photographers will be able to sort, rate, organize, and backup their photos at great speed. The new digital asset management platform in Luminar will work without subscription and will work with any storage (cloud or local). It will also bring a number of unique features, that the current Lightroom library can’t boast.

Availability

• Pre-order for Luminar 2018 will run from November 1 until November 16.
• Pre-order customers will receive a special price and value-add bonuses such as:
  • A pack of signature presets & textures from a Pro photographer Nicolesy.
  • An exclusive pack of LUTs.
  • 1-year Power plan from SmugMug ($72 value). For new accounts only

Pricing

Mixed-computer households can share the same product key for Mac and PC which can be activated on five devices.

• Current users of Luminar may upgrade at a special pre­-order price of $39
• New users can purchase Luminar at a special pre­order price of $59
• The retail price for Luminar 2018 after November 16 will be:
  • $49 upgrade for current Luminar HDR users
  • $69 for new users

The digital asset management platform will arrive in 2018 as the free update for all the users of Luminar 2018.

Guys are little nuts wanting $15 for hour of transcription, as they in turn use IBM and Google services to do actual thing and it is significantly cheaper.

https://www.simonsays.ai/

https://apps.apple.com/app/simon-says-transcription/id1441555493

https://www.cleverfiles.com/disk-drill-mac.html

Compatible cameras (as of August 20)

E mount

• Α9 II, α9, α7R IV, α7R III, α7R II, α7S III, α7S II, α7S, α7 III, α7 II, α6600, α6500, α6400, α6300, α6100, α5100

A mount

• Α99 II, α77 II

Cyber ​​shot

• RX100 VII, RX100 VI, RX100 V, RX100 IV, RX10 IV, RX10 III, RX10 II, RX1R II, RX0 II, RX0, HX99, WX800, WX700

VLOGCAM

• VLOGCAM ZV-1

https://support.d-imaging.sony.co.jp/app/webcam/en/