Das HDRI-Handbuch in Deutsch

Wie ich meinem Postkasten entnehmen konnte, ist nun die deutsche Übersetzung des "HDRI-Handbook" erhältlich. Auch die DVD mit den Tutorial-Bildern und Programmen (in Deutsch, soweit vorhanden) ist dabei.

Somit können nun auch die Englischverweigerer unter den Fotografen die Vorteile höheren Dynamikumfangs in vollen Zügen geniessen...

(Freut mich übrigens, daß der dpunkt.verlag auch den Co-Autoren automatisch ein Exemplar zukommen läßt - nicht unbedingt selbstverständlich, da das englische Original vor einem Jahr und beim amerikanischen Schwesterverlag rockynook erschienen ist.)

4 basic tipps to speed up Windows (Vista) for faster stitching

Here are 4 basic tipps to speed up your computer

The HDRI-Handbook is available!

Click here to go to the HDR Handbook Homepage.

You can order the Book via Amazon.

The topics include:

• Understanding the foundation of HDRI
• Tools for a High Dynamic Range Workflow
• How to capture HDR images: now and tomorrow
• Tone mapping for creating superior prints
• HDR Image processing and compositing
• Shooting and stitching HDR panoramas
• Image based lighting and CG rendering
• World premiere of Picturenaut and Smart IBL
• Creative uses and unconventional applications

Compiling latest Hugin on OpenSuSE 10.3

Good news: with openSuSE 10.3, most dependent libraries for Hugin 0.7beta are in the correct state, so here's a quick roundup how to get and install:

• Download latest sources:
  svn co https://hugin.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/hugin/hugin/trunk hugin
  See http://hugin.sourceforge.net/download/ for more information
• Create bootstrap:
  ./bootstrap
• run "make", then "make install". You can speed up things with modern computers by using more than 2 CPUs, e.g. "make -j2" will use 2 CPUs.
• At least for Gnome, Hugin will automatically create a start menu entry
  

What else is needed to run Hugin?

• Mandatory: The panotools library (pano12):
  svn co https://panotools.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/panotools/branches/pano12/libpano libpano12
  See http://panotools.sourceforge.net/ for more information
• Optional: Autopano-SIFT (Tool for automatic creation of control points)
  http://user.cs.tu-berlin.de/~nowozin/autopano-sift/
  Install instructions for the ignorant:
  - unpack autopano-sift-2.4.tar.gz
  - copy all files from the ../bin subdirectory to your harddisk (e.g. /usr/local/bin)
  - configure Hugin to use autopano-complete.sh for control point creation
• Optional: Enblend (Tool for seamless blending)
  I recommend still using Enblend Version 2.5 as V3 introduced GPU-based calculation which - at least on my computer - turned out to be tricky to compile.
  http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=123407