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stickeyed would be a great idea!
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I'm glad you mentioned Gimp and Autostitch. I use those two quite a bit. Another I'm starting to use is CHDK. It is a camera scripting language and camera extension software that runs on Canon point and shoot cameras. Among other things it'll let most of the PowerShot cameras shoot RAW, and scripts exist for HDR, exposure bracketing, focus bracketing for close macro work image stacking, etc. Esoteric, to say the least, but it can be useful for someone in my line of work. My guess is it might be useful to others as well. Another one that's also a little on the esoteric side is IRIS. At face value, IRIS is software for processing images coming off a telescope. It'll do color stacking, microdithering (I think), and all sorts of operations for image stacking. But the real gem for me is that it'll let you take a series of images from a rigid-mounted camera (like a camera on a tripod), it'll find all the stars in all the frames, perform an affine transformation on each image in turn to line them up and correct for lens distortion, and give you a stack of images in perfect alignment for co-adding. The upshot is that anyone can do wide-field astrophotography with an off-the-shelf camera: Tom
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theviewuphere wrote:Another I'm starting to use is CHDK. It is a camera scripting language and camera extension software that runs on Canon point and shoot cameras. Among other things it'll let most of the PowerShot cameras shoot RAW, and scripts exist for HDR, exposure bracketing, focus bracketing for close macro work image stacking, etc. Hey, thanks for this. I have a Canon PowerShot A620 so this could be useful. A friend told me about something for expanding my memory card on a Canon camera like mine too just the other day (might of been the same as CHDK, I hadn't asked for the link yet). You don't want to know how much time I spent trying to decide which camera to get all that time ago, it was pretty painful (this is my first ever camera believe it or not), so its nice to know theres some things to expand the payoff on my long deliberated purhcase further so I don't have to go through the pain again a little longer. lol... 
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You bet! Hey, if you have an A620 you have way WAY more options than I do for mine. I think most of the CHDK builds will run on it. Different builds offer different options. One that's pretty cool for something like lightning photography is high speed motion detection. (Not sure it's fast enough to do lightning, but the response time is down in the milliseconds.)
It was a bit of a pain to get it running on an A650, but if you follow the directions in the Wiki, you really can't go wrong. For getting a Canon-bootable SD card, I used Cardtricks 131 with no problems whatsoever. CHDK came up first time.
Enjoy!
Tom
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Cheers I appreciate the tips. I had a quick look at some of the features yesterday and they do sound really cool. Not sure how many will work on mine but glad to hear that most should. I especially like the idea of adding a remote control. Thanks also for the tip about installation and memory cards. I look forward to trying these things out.  I have a friend who is good with programming that is getting into photography (he has a much better camera than me, canon 400d) and was writing camera scripts for motion detection etc. He should be able to give me tips on how to use these things.
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Hey KRWDesigns, think I might could talk ya into copying and pasting those links in our forums in the graphics section. Or maybe talk ya into sending me the links that I can post for people to check out. Thanks Bill FishTs.com
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sure - that's fine
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all set - they've been added
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Excellant-thanks a ton boss.
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boss? You been talking to my husband? 
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Ahh we know who runs that family. My girlfriend runs mine as well and she says im very happy to have her do so.
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Seems like this needs a bump!
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here's another very useful link. For those who may not know, having a lot of fonts installed on your computer can cause it to run very slow. So there's this great program called The Font Thing. It's a free download. From this program you can access every fon't on your computer, without having them permanently installed. just keep the fonts you use most often in your Windows fonts folder. The rest of them, move to your Documents in a folder and called My Fonts or something. Then, when you are in your graphics program (or any program that accesses fonts), if you need a different font that what you have installed, you open up The Font Thing(TFT) You can type in the word or phrase you are creating and see a preview of it in every single font on your computer. Then, when you have chosen the font you want, you just click to Load it (not install). Then the font will be available in your graphics program, as long as TFT is open. If you find you use a font a lot that isn't installed, you don't have to find it and move it yourself, just tell TFT to install it. When you use it, there are little icons next to each font to tell you if it's installed or loaded. http://www.download.com/The-Font-Thing/3000-2316_4-10038296.html
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www.paint.net Its freeware and very easy to use, root around in the forum over at paint.net and you can even find some great add ons for it.
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bumpitty bump bump
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bumping this up again for newer members to see
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Thanks so much for starting this post and to all who provided information on software etc. Missy 
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you're very welcome Missy! And thank you to Eric for making this a sticky!
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Gimp is excellent - comparable to Photoshop CS which I also have. You should also try Apophysis 3D - it's in a beta format at the moment but works brilliantly for flame creation.
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