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		<title>Creating HDR images in Ubuntu with Luminance (QTPFSGUI)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those who are not (yet) in possession one of the latest digital cameras with build-in HDR capabilities or the more experimental folks, there is a fantastic free tool to create HDR images by combining multiple shots of the same scene: Its called qtpfsgui. 
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>For those who are not (yet) in possession one of the latest digital cameras with build-in HDR capabilities or the more experimental folks, there is a fantastic free tool to create HDR images by combining multiple shots of the same scene: Its called <a href="http://qtpfsgui.sourceforge.net/">qtpfsgui</a>. </p>
<p>That is, it <em>used</em> to be called that and is still available in Ubuntu under this name (<code>sudo apt-get install qtpfsgui</code>). However, qtpfsgui is discontinued since mid 2009 and has been replaced by the <a href="http://qtpfsgui.sourceforge.net/">Luminance HDR project</a>.
</p>
<p>Since qtpfsgui crashes under ubuntu 9.10 when attempting to save any HDR image, I downloaded the latest luminance version, compiled and installed it like so:</p>
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<li>Download the luminance source and unpack the folder.</li>
<li>
   Install the dependencies required to compile luminance:<br />
  <code>sudo apt-get install qt4-qmake libexiv2-dev libopenexr-dev fftw3-dev libtiff4-dev libqt4-dev g++ libgsl0-dev</code>
</li>
<li>
  Compile luminance (takes a few minues) and install it. Change to the unpacked luminance folder and do:<br />
  <code>qmake<br />make<br />sudo make install</code>
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<p>That´s it! you now have luminance installed and it should be in your main menu under applications>graphics.</p>
<p>It works perfectly with Karmic.<br />
One of the best things about luminance is that you can play a lot with the algorithms and parameters used to tonemap the HDR into a LDR image. In contrast to many other (commercial) tools, you actually get to know which algorithms are used, who created them and can read a little more on how they work (if you are not to opposed to mathematics) by googling up the corresponding papers.</p>
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