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

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