[HDRI] Photosphere 1.6 available

[Mark Banas (lists)]

On May 11, 2006, at 5:34 PM, Gregory J. Ward wrote:

> For pros, there is much better software available, and some of it  
> is free.  Photosphere may be the only one that stitches HDR at the  
> moment, but I don't expect that to be true for very long.

Actually, Hugin 0.5 for OS X and Linux (not sure about the Windows  
version) can read, stitch and output 32-bit files, but it is far from  
easy-to-learn. Last I checked it could only open Log-Luv TIFFs, but I  
believe Pablo is adding Radiance and OpenEXR to 0.6. Hugin is  
opensource and available here:

http://hugin.sourceforge.net/

For a while Hugin 0.5 was how I transformed stitched HDR spherical  
panoramas into a form that made it easier to retouch the top and  
bottom of the maps. Now I use the Photoshop plug-in Flexify 2 from  
Flaming Pear. It transforms 32-bit files as well into all kinds of  
useful remappings...

-Mark