I'm interested in answering questions that relate to "how do I achieve this effect?", but I don't see a tag for that type of question. Is there one?
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I think the closest we have is reverse-engineering. Tag summary is:
Analysis of an image to determine setup and techniques that could be used to achieve certain properties of the image.
Downsides:
- not obvious to non-geeks
- has a hardware implication (despite the tag description)
Just effect is pretty common in practice, even though that's kind of terrible.
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A lot of the questions we get - unfortunately many of them too broad & are soon closed - tend to start with the assumption that everything is a 'filter' as in a Snapchat/Instagram filter.
filterfilters or software-filter
This one is actually looking for equivalents to Snapchat filters - How can I recreate Snapchat's built-in filter effects?
As mattdm has already mentioned, these would tend to be back-tagged with effect or reverse-engineering
Maybe we should have a whats-this-effect tag, perhaps linked back to reverse-engineering?
There's also post-processing (which feels odd to me, as I've always known it as post-production rather than processing.)
Personally, I like these types of challenge, if the question or examples are sufficiently well-honed to know precisely what 'effect' is being asked about.
Link to How should we handle the "what (Instagram) filter is makes this photo" type questions? for the current state of play on some of these questions.
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\$\begingroup\$ Interesting suggestion re: 'whats-this-effect' tag. While I admit that I kinda like it (or something like it), I think we should be careful about exactly what kind of questions we're interested in encouraging (to the point of giving them their own tag category). Are we interested in attracting, encouraging, or curating "What's this effect, i.e., what filter do I use in [App X] to look like [celebrity Y]?" Or are we interested more in questions like "What adjustments in [App A] can I use to simulate this [effect B]?" The latter seem like interesting RE challenges. But the former... meh. \$\endgroup\$– scottbb ModCommented Oct 22, 2018 at 20:25
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Why not simply have a photo-style tag? Or simply style?
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\$\begingroup\$ Eesh, yeah....it is a mess... \$\endgroup\$– jrista ModCommented Oct 24, 2018 at 6:21
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\$\begingroup\$ "Photo Style" is also very close to "Picture Style", a specific terminology used by Canon. \$\endgroup\$ Commented Oct 26, 2018 at 6:26