Luminance HDR 2.0.1, an improved, but still trying, photography tool [LWN.net]

Luminance HDR 2.0.1, an improved, but still trying, photography tool

Posted Oct 28, 2010 9:35 UTC (Thu) by rossburton (subscriber, #7254)
Parent article: Luminance HDR 2.0.1, an improved, but still trying, photography tool

"Most have gotten used to the arcane demosaicing and noise-removal algorithms found in raw image editors, after all."

In bad RAW editors used by geeks, sure.

In something designed for real use such as Adobe Lightroom or Apple Aperture, demosiacing is automatically picked depending on the camera type and noise removal algorithms are reduced down to three sliders.

http://modifiedphoto.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/lr2-lr3c... is screenshot showing LR2 and LR3's detail panes.

(chromatic aberration moved in LR3 from Detail to Lens Correction, where if LR has a profile for the lens you used it's automatically set to the right values you for)

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Luminance HDR 2.0.1, an improved, but still trying, photography tool

Posted Oct 28, 2010 12:58 UTC (Thu) by n8willis (editor, #43041) [Link]

In those shots, the sliders still expose controls with little direct explanation of what the parameters do (though I'd also argue that that's true of unsharp masks and several other tools; the point is that photographers have the left-brained-chops to handle things like this, despite being "creative types"). I also think not every proprietary app is quite as refined on the simple-usability-front; consider: http://bibblelabs.com/products/bibble5/features/tools.htm...

But it's definitely true that automatically picking sensible defaults is what these apps ought to be doing. Hugin's making progress in this area, although the app as a whole still requires too much jumping-back-and-forth between the tabs.

Nate