[Digikam-devel] [Bug 144593] New High Dynamic Range (HDR) plugin

[DrSlony]

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------- Additional Comments From theonlychurch go2 pl  2008-04-02 19:13 -------
HDR was and is hot, but tonemapping HDR images often does not render realistic results, even when care is taken to preserv the real-look. 

A new tool has recently been released called tufuse.
Tufuse is capable of exposure blending and FOCUS BLENDING.
Tufuse generates REALISTIC scenes without needing to go into HDR mode!

Check it out here:
http://www.tawbaware.com/tufuse.htm

I spoke with the author and unfortunately a cross-platform version isn't planned, so that would mean that in order to implement something as great as this in digikam, you (the programmers) would need to write a tool the works the same way as tufuse from scratch.

I, honstely, would prefer to see something realistic like tufuse in digikam, than hdr which renders less realistic tonemapped results.

A friend and I wrote a script to use tufuse.exe through wine and batch process whole directories of bracketed shots. 
See it here:
http://www.autopano.net/wiki/action/view/Bashfuse