Archives For November 30, 1999

Luminance HDR

After almost two years of development, Luminance HDR released version 2.6.0 was released yesterday.

Luminance HDR 2.6.0 release highlights:

  • Four new tone-mapping operators: ferwerda, kimkautz, lischinski and vanhateren.
  • Speed up for hdr creation
  • Added post processing gamma and saturation.
  • Great speedup and better memory usage for all tonemapping operators
  • Preview of created HDR in HDR Wizard
  • Other small improvements and bug-fixes as usual.

How to Install Luminance HDR 2.6.0 in Ubuntu 18.04, 19.04

There’s an unofficial PPA contains the latest Luminance HDR packages for Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 18.10, Ubuntu 19.04.

Open terminal either via Ctrl+Alt+T keyboard shortcut or by searching for “Terminal” from application menu. When it opens, run following commands one by one:

1. Run command to add the PPA repository:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:dhor/myway

Type user password (no visual feedback due to security reason) when it prompts and hit Enter to continue.

2. If you have a previous release installed, launch Software Updater (Update Manager) and upgrade the software:

Or run following command to install (or upgrade) Luminance HDR:

sudo apt install luminance-hdr

How to Uninstall:

The PPA repository can be removed by going to System Settings -> Software & Updates -> Other Software tab.

To remove the software, either use your system package manager or run command:

sudo apt remove --auto-remove luminance-hdr

Luminance, a complete workflow for HDR imaging, finally got a new release more than three years after the last.

Luminance HDR is a graphical user interface (based on the Qt5 toolkit) that provides a complete workflow for HDR imaging. It supports following HDR formats: OpenEXR (exr), Radiance RGBE (hdr), Tiff formats: 16bit, 32bit (float) and LogLuv (tiff), Raw image formats (various), PFS native format (pfs). And it supports JPEG, PNG, PPM, PBM, TIFF, FITS LDR formats.

The latest Luminance HDR 2.5.0 features:

  • Two brand new tonemapping operators: ferradans and mai
  • Optional automatic adjustment of LDRs levels
  • Greater EV values range in HDR Creation Wizard
  • Restore load/save curves in HDR Creation Wizard
  • Better HiDPI support
  • Better CLI interface
  • Fix various crashes
  • “Fast Export”, which renders current image in full size
  • List version of supported cameras for RAW files (and some libraw info)
  • Export to HTML (Create a webpage with embedded HDR viewer)
  • Better printing support and print preview in Help Browser
  • A new “Dark Theme” (beta) and native platform icons support
  • Switch UI full screen (F11), show LDRs and HDRs images full screen (F10)
  • Portuguese (Brazilian) translation
  • Other small impovements and bugfixing as usual

For Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 16.10, Ubuntu 17.04, and their derivatives, the 2.5.0 release is available via the PPA repository.

To install it, open terminal via Ctrl+Alt+T or by searching “Terminal” from start menu, and then do following steps:

1. Run command to add the PPA repository:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:dhor/myway

Type in your password (no visual feedback due to security reason) when prompts and hit Enter.

2. If you have a previous release installed, now launch Software Updater (Update Manager) to upgrade it:

Or run following commands to check updates and install Luminance HDR:

sudo apt update && sudo apt install luminance-hdr

How to Uninstall:

The PPA repository can be removed by going to System Settings -> Software & Updates -> Other Software tab. To remove the software, either use your system package manager or run command:

sudo apt remove --autoremove luminance-hdr

Luminance HDR, an open source graphical user interface application that aims to provide a workflow for HDR imaging, now is at version 2.4.0.

This release introduces a few new features: automatic anti-ghosting, FITS support, integration with Windows Task Bar, improved I/O with TIFF 32 bit (which will make possible to export to third party software for high-quality post processing), redesigned merge algorithms.

To install this build in Ubuntu 13.10 or Linux Mint 16, press Ctrl+Alt+T on your keyboard to open the terminal. When it opens, run below commands one by one:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:dhor/myway

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install luminance-hdr

These commands will also install the previous version 2.3.1 in Ubuntu 13.04, Ubuntu 12.10 and Ubuntu 12.04.

Luminance HDR website.