Ralf R. Radermacher wrote: >Mark Roberts <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Is it, in fact, HDR? Does "ImageFuser" do HDR or does it merely work >> by blending layer transparency the way you can do yourself manually in >> Photoshop? > >It is indeed a blending technique. ImageFuser itself is a mere graphical >front-end: > >"ImageFuser is a MacOSX program that fuses multiple exposures of one >scene into an image with greater detail and well balanced exposure by >using the well exposed areas of the original multi-exposure images. >ImageFuser is a graphical frontend for the open source command line >tools Enfuse and Align_Image_Stack. Next to these tools Phil Harvey's >ExifTool is used to copy exif, jfif, tiff, iptc, gps, icc profile data >etc. to the new images." > >The actual work is done by AlignImageStack, which is surprisingly good >at precisely stacking hand-held shots and then by Enfuse which... > >"merges overlapping images using the Mertens-Kautz-Van Reeth exposure >fusion algorithm. ... This is a quick way to blend differently exposed >images into a nice output image, without producing intermediate HDR >images that are then tonemapped to a viewable image. This simplified >process often works much better than the currently known tonemapping >algorithms." > >They're certainly right with this last sentence. More info on Enfuse and >the algorithm it uses can be found here: > >http://enblend.sourceforge.net/
Cool! I much prefer this kind of thing to HDR. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
