Currently I\'m playing with Luminance HDR but I find it quite complicated and ha
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Currently I'm playing with Luminance HDR but I find it quite complicated and hard to get decent results. Darktable does offer a HDR module but with limited options.
Looks that some of option I require are hard to be find in today Linux HDR photo software, so I split down the necessary and non necessary options.
Required features
Easy to import photos (in different formats including most common RAW formats)
Easy-to-use GUI
Good align preset (like Hugin)
Fast processing speed and not too memory-hungry (I plan to use it on a box with 3GB RAM).
Optional features (I can take care of this in other photo software, so not a must):
Minimal exposure adjusting
Quality tone mapping presets with preview
Good anti-ghosting script (option)
I'm running on Ubuntu so the recommended tool should be installable on Ubuntu. Although I'm not a fan of Wine or PlayOnLinux types of installations, I will consider it if the software meets my requirements. The tool doesn't necessary need to be free and open-source but I would definitely prefer it.
Explanation / Answer
Hugin deserves a look for this capacity. It is primarily tooled as a panorama sticher, but the libraries it uses to blend the resulting overlaps (enfuse/enblend) also know a thing or two about dynamic range!
In fact, you can load up a set of pictures of exactly the same shot with different exposures just for the purposes of selecting the HDR output options. The significant advantage here over many other solutions is that you can also fix alignment and perspective issues in shots that do not exactly match and even use partially overlapping ones to supplement the data for areas of an image.
The disadvantage is that there is not a lot of fiddling with the settings to be done unless you do it behind Hugins back, and what settings there are you need to understand ahead of time because the preview of exposure settings does not function very well as it was tooled mostly for detecting alignment issues.
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