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HDR

Woobie   June 24, 2011, 01:07 PM

Im trying to make a good HDR pic, but i can... i have taken pics and i have tryd in PS with the new merge HDR tool, ive tryed photomatrix, and easyHDR... but everything costs alot, and i mean ALLLOT. is there no free HDR program? or am i just going to have to make my own HDR by hand in gimp?

 
Daniel Isenmann   June 24, 2011, 01:13 PM

You can try Luminance HDR. It's free and open-source: http://qtpfsgui.sourceforge.net

 
nachbarnebenan   June 24, 2011, 01:28 PM

Yes, Luminance is probably the most flexible tool.
For quick-and-easy you can also use Cinepaint, it has HDR generation built-in.
Another way is the exposure blend kipi plugin, even though it's slow.

For further tips look at this (sorry, couldn't resist ;-): http://meetthegimp.org/workflow/doku.php?id=hdr

 
Perkin-warbeck   June 24, 2011, 01:30 PM

Or download Ray Adagio's "Adagio Range Selection script" from the Gimp plugin registry. See episode 100 of "Meet the Gimp" for how to use it. It is free and easy.

 
cosmonautirussi   June 24, 2011, 01:49 PM

Digikam (for Linux mainly) has the option "local contrast" which uses emblend to produce HDR - A very easy way, too.

 
Woobie   June 24, 2011, 04:36 PM

thanks for all the answers and youll see if it worked or not

 
r23   June 27, 2011, 07:17 PM

Also have a look at Darktable:
http://darktable.sourceforge.net/

 
Woobie   June 28, 2011, 06:36 AM

Srry R23 cant use it on windows :S

 
nachbarnebenan   June 28, 2011, 09:58 AM

You can try to build it with mingw32 and run it in cygwin, even though I don't know if this works that easily for gtk-based programs.
However, you can always grab a distribution and install it onto a separate partition.

 
Woobie   June 29, 2011, 07:48 AM

@nachbarnebenan: well sry to tell you that i cant. ive tryed many times now to install ubuntu but i think i have a MBR prob, and im trying to fix it so i can install

 
gerrit-worldwide.de   July 09, 2011, 07:34 AM

Exposure blending using layers and masks is also nice way to get HDR like images.

 
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