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Tony Rye
Photography
Technical Notes
This web site has been built using a large number of different tools. This page summarises the tools and their functionality.
Imaging Tools
Lightroom CC:
supports management and development of all the images.
Google/Nik Silver Efex Pro:
Used for some of the monochrome images. More powerful than Lightroom.
Photoshop CC:
occasionally used to tidy images - mainly cloning out larger irritating objects.
Hugin:
A better more versatile and capable tool for panorama stitching, than those available in Lightroom/Photoshop.
Photo Album Tools
jAlbum:
used for the main albums it provides tools for tagging, commenting, sorting and publishing albums.
Tiger
used for main albums.
Turtle
skin used for Museum albums.
Web Tools
Bootstrap (4.0.0beta):
provides responsive front-end framework for main site pages. Requires Popper.js.
SASS
used to build CSS project files.
Handlebars:
template development of searchable album pages and other tables.
font-awesome:
provides glyph icons.
TableSorter:
interactive sort for tables.
Panorado:
a tool for viewing panoramas in web pages.
jquery:
needs no introduction.
Mapping Tools
Leaflet:
javascript library for mapping
Plugins:
Leaflet-gpx:
gpx plugin for leaflet
LeafletMarkerCluster:
clusters markers in leaflet
Leaflet-GroupedLayerControl:
groups layers in overlay control
Countries Geo JSON:
geo-json data for the worlds country borders.
GPX Tools
GPSbabel:
toolbox for conversion and filtering of GPS files
BaseCamp:
Garmin tool for viewing and editing of GPX files
AV/Video tools
Proshow Producer
a tool for producing videos and slide shows.
Google Earth
for the generation of flythrough videos.
Further information on the collection and management of GPS data is provided in the
Map Technical Notes
page.
Links
Joliba Trust
Restoring livelihoods in Mali
Springfield Camera Club
Globetrotters Club
Useful Stuff
Hugin
panorama image stitching
Twitter Bootstrap
web front-end framework