Luminance HDR

Luminance HDR 2.6.0 is out! After almost two years of development Luminance HDR 2.6.0 is finally out. This new release introduces new features: Four brand new tone-mapping operators: ferwerda, kimkautz, lischinski and vanhateren. All tone-mapping ... [More] operators have been optimized for speed and lower memory consumption (Thanks to Ingo Weyrich). Speed up for hdr creation (Also [...] [Less]

Luminance HDR is now available on Flathub Flathub aims to be the place to get and distribute apps for Linux. It is powered by Flatpak which allows Flathub apps to run on almost any Linux distribution.

Up to date translation file for German language is available on sourceforge files. It’s called lang_de.qm. After downloading, it must be copied into i18n folder. On Windows it should be c:\Program Files\Luminance HDR\i18n, on Linux usually the right ... [More] directory is /usr/share/luminance-hdr/i18n. One must restart the application after this file has been copied. [Less]

Up to date translation files for French and Portuguese/Brazilian are available on sourceforge files. They are named lang_fr.qm for French and lang_pt_BR.qm for Portuguese. After downloading them, they must be copied into i18n folder. On Windows it ... [More] should be c:\Program Files\Luminance HDR\i18n, on Linux usually the right directory is /usr/share/luminance-hdr/i18n. One must restart the application [...] [Less]

In the previous DMG images for macOS/OS X the align_image_stack binary has its executable bit not set which means aligning images with this engine does not work in Luminance HDR. We provide a new build that fix this issue. It can be downloaded from the link below.  Setting the exec bit running chmod +x /Applications/Luminance\ HDR\ [...]

Luminance HDR 2.5.1 is out! This is essentially 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. The small new features: ... [More] Selectable threshold for adjusting levels Optional Lanczos interpolation Antialiased display of images Navigation of images in fullscreen [...] [Less]

Luminance HDR 2.5.0 is out! After quite some time Luminance HDR 2.5.0 is eventually out. This release introduces a few new features: Two brand new tonemapping operators: ferradans and mai Optional automatic adjustment of LDRs levels Greater EV values ... [More] range in HDR Creation Wizard Restore load/save curves in HDR Creation Wizard Better HiDPI support Better [...] [Less]

Development in the world of Luminance HDR has been slow in the slow in the last year. While we have some new things to put out soon, we couldn’t do enough coding to put out a chunky release for you folks out there! We have started realizing that, despite our effort, our lives are claiming [...]

Development in the world of Luminance HDR has been slow in the slow in the last year. While we have some new things to put out soon, we couldn’t do enough coding to put out a chunky release for you folks out there! We have started realizing that, despite our effort, our lives are claiming [...]

Luminance HDR 2.4.0 is out! This release introduces a few new features: automatic anti-ghosting, FITS support, integration with Windows Task Bar, improved I/O with TIFF 32 bit (which will make possible to export to third party software for ... [More] high-quality post processing), redesigned merge algorithms. Of course, because we have so many new features out on [...] [Less]