Sorry for responsing late, it took me a while to get around to checking
what came of the advice.
Am 02.12.18 um 14:59 schrieb Anton Aylward:
Q2: Is Darktable the right tool for the job?
I would not think so.
The thing that made me interested in DT is that it has a good image
management GUI.
During my experiments with Hugin and IM I found that it is pretty hard
to keep track of what image variant with what tool history is in what
directory. It's also hard to get a quick overview over all the images in
a directory.
I was thinking that DT might help me with that, apart from the image
blend operation.
If I were you I'd go to somewhere like the DPReview chat lists and look under
HDR or see what other list headings they have.
https://www.dpreview.com/forums
Or the Linux Hugin discussion groups.
dpreview was new, thanks for the pointer.
* Align images, at sub-pixel accuracy.
* Take the median for each pixel.
* Image alignment can be done with Hugin, median-taking with ImageMagick, but I
couldn't get this to work; too many details to configure, and do one thing wrong
and you get a totally different result than what you wanted.
I don't see why you dragged ImageMagick into this[1][2].
I agree that it is too complicated to use.
Worse, the detail behaviour of the individual operators can vary from
version to version.
Still, what's the alternative?
I think your mistake is in trying to define *single* a tool to do everything
possible as 'all in one'. Slice this up into smaller stuff. Do what you can
with that you can and gain experience 'with the small stuff'.
Issue is that this means a lot of scripting, and coding, and it's taking
months to get a suitable workflow rolling.
(Shell scripting won't work, I have switched to Python...)
When you can demonstrate applying the 80/20 rule and have that 80% you will be
feeling more confident and have a better feel for many of the details.
It's roughly 400,000 pages, or 2,000 books. With 80/20 and just my free
time, I'd be doing a book per day; you do the math how long it would
take me to complete digitizing that.
I say this proportion basted on other projects in other fields of my life; there
seems to be something in the nature of human project that means the 80/20 rule
works "all the way down".
Sort of. You can do better, but the effort to automate rises.
If a few months of tool selection / improvement spare me years of
postprocessing, it's still worth it.
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