Are You Fond Of HDR Photography? Try Luminance HDR Application In Ubuntu/Linux Mint

Luminance HDR is an graphical user interface that is used for manipulation and creation of High Dynamic Range(HDR) images. It is based on Qt5 toolkit, it is cross-platform available for Linux, Windows and Mac, and released under the GNU GPL license. It provides a complete workflow for High Dynamic Range(HDR) as well as Low Dynamic Range (LDR) file formats.
Prerequisite of HDR photography are several narrow-range digital images with different exposures. Luminance HDR combines these images and calculates a high-contrast image. In order to view this image on a regular computer monitor, Luminance HDR can convert it into a displayable LDR image format using a variety of methods, such as tone mapping.

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

Supported HDR formats:

• OpenEXR (.exr)
• Radiance RGBE (.hdr)
• Tiff formats: 16bit, 32bit (float) and LogLuv (.tiff)
• Raw image format (various extensions)
• PFS native format (.pfs)

Supported LDR formats:

• JPG
• PNG
• Portable Pixmap (PPM)
• Portable Bitmap (PBM)
• TIFF (8 Bit)
• FITS

Available for Ubuntu 17.04 Zesty/16.04 Xenial/14.04 Trusty/Linux Mint 18/17/other Ubuntu derivatives
To install Luminance HDR in Ubuntu/Linux Mint open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:

Terminal Commands:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:dhor/myway
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install luminance-hdr

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