Luminance HDR News

Luminance HDR 2.6.0 is out!

After almost two years of development Luminance HDR 2.6.0 is finally out.

This new release introduces new features:

• Four brand new tone-mapping operators: ferwerda, kimkautz, lischinski and vanhateren.
• All tone-mapping operators have been optimized for speed and lower memory consumption (Thanks to Ingo Weyrich).
• Speed up for hdr creation (Also thanks to Ingo Weyrich).
• Added post processing gamma and saturation.
• In HDR Wizard it is now possible to preview the final HDR after applying different fusion settings and before accepting it.
• Other small improvements and bug-fixing as usual.... read more

Luminance HDR is now available on Flathub

Flathub aims to be the place to get and distribute apps for Linux. It is powered by Flatpak which allows Flathub apps to run on almost any Linux distribution.
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Up to date translation file for German language is available on sourceforge files.
It's called lang_de.qm.
After downloading, it must be copied into i18n folder.
On Windows it should be c:\Program Files\Luminance HDR\i18n, on Linux usually the right directory is /usr/share/luminance-hdr/i18n.

One must restart the application after this file has been copied.
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Up to date translation files for French and Portuguese/Brazilian are available on sourceforge files.
They are named lang_fr.qm for French and lang_pt_BR.qm for Portuguese.
After downloading them, they must be copied into i18n folder.
On Windows it should be c:\Program Files\Luminance HDR\i18n, on Linux usually the right directory is /usr/share/luminance-hdr/i18n.... read more

In the previous DMG images for macOS/OS X the align_image_stack binary has its executable bit not set which means aligning images with this engine does not work in Luminance HDR.
We provide a new build that fix this issue. It can be downloaded from the link below.  Setting the exec bit running_ chmod +x /Applications/Luminance\ HDR\ 2.5.1.app/Contents/MacOS/align_image_stack _also fixes the issue.... read more

Luminance HDR 2.5.1 is out!

This is essentially a bugfixing release with some minor enhancements.
All issues related to highlights clipping and artifacts  when creating HDRs have been addressed and fixed for all profiles.

The small new features:

• Selectable threshold for adjusting levels
• Optional Lanczos interpolation
• Antialiased display of images
• Navigation of images in fullscreen
• Online Documentation... read more

Luminance HDR 2.5.0 is out!

After quite some time Luminance HDR 2.5.0 is eventually out.

This release introduces a few new 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... read more

Development in the world of Luminance HDR has been slow in the slow in the last year. While we have some new things to put out soon, we couldn't do enough coding to put out a chunky release for you folks out there! We have started realizing that, despite our effort, our lives are claiming their space and time, which means less coding for our baby.

Hence we made the decision that if we want to speed up again the development, we need to move where the best developers are, and this platform seems to be GitHub nowadays. Sourceforge served as well for a long time, and the project is still open, but the code repository is now on GitHub at https://github.com/LuminanceHDR/LuminanceHDR. We will probably move the issue tracker on GitHub as well in the next few days, and we will probably open a new subproject to create a better manual.... read more

Luminance HDR 2.4.0 is out!

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.

Of course, because we have so many new features out on the table, we are aware that we might have a lot of bug reports: please use our Tracker and we will try to tackle them as soon as possible.... read more

We are pleased to announce Luminance HDR 2.3.1, an improvement release for Luminance HDR.

It's a long time since version 2.3.0: unfortunately 2012 has been a really busy year for all of us in the development team, so we couldn't dedicate much time to the project. However, we are now up to speed and we will try to push releases more often, with new features.... read more

I want to say it straight: I am sorry! I seriously am! I am sorry because you are not getting Luminance HDR's updates as fast as you want (and I wish).

From a personal prospective, last year did not exactly go as I wanted, and this year is not starting better. Working on Luminance HDR was much simpler when I was a PhD student: I could manage  my time, and allocate my resources as I wanted. I could even sit  in front of Luminance HDR's code for a couple of days in a row and code what I wanted, without even showing up in the lab for my PhD. However, since I start working, I have to find pieces of spare time here and there and try to get the maximum out of it. On top, most of my 2012 was allocate to finish my PhD thesis, something I really could not procrastinate.... read more

[plain]We are pleased to announce Luminance HDR 2.3.0, a shiny new major release with important new features, than completes the progress of the beta version of 8 weeks ago.[/plain]

[plain]Thanks to the important work made by Franco and Daniel[/plain][plain], this new release brings into Luminance HDR a brand new colour management system, improved JPG, TIFF and PNG readers and writers and a new image alignment tool for RAW files as well (plus many other small changes). Since the beta1, minor flaws and bugs have been fixed. Moreover, we ported the new colour management system from LCMS to LCMS2.[/plain]... read more

[plain]It is a big pleasure for me to announce that Luminance HDR won the award as [/plain][plain]May 2012 Sourceforge Project of the Month[/plain][plain]. It is  an honour for us to win this award, that [/plain][plain]has been given to absolutely brilliant projects for the last 10 years[/plain][plain]. And it is also a good occasion to talk a bit more in detail on what is going on in Luminance HDR.[/plain]... read more