Luminance HDR

This blog post is a little update on the status of Luminance HDR. We have been working on a new version of Luminance HDR since the release of the current version, trying to improve functionalities and add a few more, with the aim of giving you a better software. Our core development team now counts [...]

We decided to open 3 new mailing lists with the aim of a closer relationship with users, translators and potential developers. These mailing lists can be found here: Users Developers Translators Feel free to join one or more that our mailing list: we are looking forward for you! P.S. This blog will not allow comments [...]

We are pleased to announce a new version of Luminance HDR. We are changing Luminance HDR deeply, re-factoring a lot of the legacy code. We are trying to add new features and at the same time take out the maximum from new multicore machines using new development techniques. This version is absolutely a big improvement [...]

I have been working on Mac OS X since I have taken the lead of the Luminance HDR project. Mac OS X is a nice platform, supported well by Qt, with several good quality external tool available (mainly coming from the Linux world). I did a lot of work to shape a nice interface on [...]

Daniel Kaneider, a long collaborator of the Luminance HDR project (even when the name was Qtpfsgui), made a 64 bit build of Luminance HDR for Windows. It is a great thing to see Luminance running in 64 bit on Windows, but unfortunately this build is to be considered really unstable. However, we need your help [...]

What do you think if Luminance HDR moves to Git?

Luminance HDR is growing, improving and leaving behind some of its historic problem: memory hungriness and unexpected faults. I am trying to sort out as many problem I can and, at the same time, I am getting a lot of patches from really smart guys that I will never thank enough. Most of the work in this [...]

I’ve been struggling since I’ve taken the head of the development with the difficulties of debugging the project properly: makefiles, gcc and gdb are really bad tools when you are used to work inside a graphical IDE (in my personal case, Xcode). This seems to be a big problem also for other users: KDevelop project [...]

It’s been a while since the last update. After all, it was Xmas for us as well! Development of the final release of Luminance 2.0.2 is going on and we have taken every single bug report really seriously: we are trying to fix them, or eventually take them like milestones of the next release. Currently [...]

A pre release of Luminance HDR 2.0.2 is out. It is stable and reliable but could contain undiscovered bugs, that’s why you should download and test it before the official release of 2.0.2. You can download using these links: [ Windows (32-bit) ] [ Mac OS X (32-bit, Intel) ] [ Source Code ] I [...]