Luminance HDR Changelog

What's new in Luminance HDR 2.6.0

Jun 10, 2019
  • 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.

New in Luminance HDR 2.5.0 (May 8, 2017)

  • New Portuguese (Brazil) translation

New in Luminance HDR 2.4.0 (May 8, 2017)

  • NEW: Automatic anti-ghosting and improved manual anti-ghosting
  • NEW: FITS Importer to merge and tonemap astronomic images
  • NEW: Automatic white-balance for both HDRs and LDRs
  • NEW: switch to Transifex translation platform for current and future translations
  • NEW: Windows: integration into the operating system (jumplist, progress bar)
  • HDR Creation with small UX improvements
  • Changed EXIF detection for the HDR creation
  • Switch to Qt5
  • Refactored code base for a future libHDR library
  • Improved Debevec radiance map construction

New in Luminance HDR 2.3.1 (May 1, 2013)

  • Automatically Update Checker
  • Update libraries (in particular, LibRAW)
  • Support for TIFF 32 bit floating point (compatible with Adobe Lightroom 4)
  • Improved EXR, TIFF, JPEG and PNG I/O
  • Improved color conversion routines
  • NEW: Hugin's alignment: Autocrop feature (thanks to David Polák)
  • NEW: Support additional demosaicing algorithms, AMaZE as default
  • NEW: Save HDR creation profiles
  • NEW: Copy EXIF tags to tonemapped images automatically
  • NEW: Portable mode
  • NEW: Testing realtime previews (beta functionality)
  • Anti-ghosting working again
  • Speed improvements to various TMO algorithms
  • Speed improvements to merge algorithms
  • New Danish translation

New in Luminance HDR 2.3.0 (Jul 2, 2012)

  • Color Management Support (read/write ICC profiles, soft proofing, gamut check)
  • Selection of output image size and quality in Batch TM
  • Fixed memory leak in Batch HDR
  • Fattal and Reinhard02 now thread safe (speed improvement with multicore processors)
  • Windows: Better OS Integration
  • Other small improvements and bugfixing as usual

New in Luminance HDR 2.3.0 Beta 1 (May 15, 2012)

  • New: color management system. The new color management system allows to load color profile for screen and printer so that users can double-check the final quality of their HDR images before being saved to JPEG or PNG.
  • Improved load/save of calculated profile for the merge operator
  • Improved JPG, PNG and TIFF reader and writer