Create HDR images on Linux Ubuntu Systems. Install Luminance HDR on Ubuntu. Luminance HDR is a graphical user interface (based on the Qt5 toolkit) that provides a complete workflow for HDR imaging.
Supported HDR formats:
- OpenEXR (extension: exr)
- Radiance RGBE (extension: hdr)
- Tiff formats: 16bit, 32bit (float) and LogLuv (extension: tiff)
- Raw image formats (extension: various)
- PFS native format (extension: pfs)
Supported LDR formats:
- JPEG, PNG, PPM, PBM, TIFF, FITS
Supported features:
- Create an HDR file from a set of images (JPEG, TIFF 8bit and 16bit, RAW) of the same scene taken at different exposure setting
- Save and load HDR files
- Rotate and resize HDR files
- Tonemap HDR images
- Projective Transformations
- Copy EXIF data between sets of images
- Supports internationalization
Luminance HDR 2.5.1
Luminance HDR 2.5.1 is the latest stable release. Luminance HDR 2.5.1 is 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.
It brings the following changes:
- Selectable threshold for adjusting levels
- Optional Lanczos interpolation
- Antialiased display of images
- Navigation of images in fullscreen
- Online Documentation
Install Luminance HDR
Run the following commands in Terminal to install Luminance HDR 2.5.1 on Ubuntu Systems:
$ sudo apt update
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:dhor/myway
$ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt install luminance-hdr
Once installed, open the Luminance app from Ubuntu Dash.