Stuart <for...@gimpusers.com> writes: > No! There are some plugins that attempt to align images for HDR purposes, but > I have not found anything adequate to the job of focus stacking. > > I use this technique a great deal in producing photographs of insects to > illustrate keys. > > If you want open source, try Hugin. You can use align_image_stack.exe to do > the necessary image alignment and adjust magnification (but maybe that is not > necessary for Astronomy) and then enfuse.exe to do the actual image merging. > > Helicon Focus is probably the leading commercial package. The results from > Hugin and Helicon are indistiguishable in my tests, but Helicon has a nice > user interface and is much faster because it makes better use of multiple > CPUs (align_image_stack is single threaded, enfuse has a limited > multi-threaded version). There is a free 30-day trial version of Helicon and > the licence is not expensive. > > I use GIMP to do the post-processing once I have a completed stack. Often > needs all the usual exposure adjustments, rotation, etc. - and removal of > specimen pins.
Darktable also does HDR as of version 0.8 :) See http://darktable.sourceforge.net/ I haven't tried it yet. See also http://garmahis.com/tutorials/hdr-tutorial-free-software/ and http://qtpfsgui.sourceforge.net/ -- Kevin Brubeck Unhammer http://donttrack.us/ -- because you're worth it _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
