See also: Hugin - Panorama photo stitcher. I used to use a lot back in ~2006 for making panoramas. It automatically finds "control points" in your photos, figures out which ones are shared between the photos and uses that information to determine the relative positions of the photos, and your lens parameters. Once it does that it can stitch the photos together. It does this by projecting the photos onto a... - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago

Photography - Specifically, virtual focus synthetic aperture photography. I used to commute via the South Shore Railroad to Chicago, and had about 50 minutes each way with my laptop. Most days, I'd be processing photos. Some are aligned in a focal plane, some are aligned other ways. Here's an old gallery on Flickr.[2] I got into this after seeing a demo of Marc Levoy's work at Stanford, where the demo showed a... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

Go try Hugin. I have been involved with photography at many levels since 1974. You are wrong but since you have trust issues so try the method they used for a while and see how it works. Source: almost 2 years ago

Adobe's Ps/Lr photomerge works for most folks, but can be kind of primitive vs. Dedicated stitching software if there are stitching errors you need to correct. If it fails you, you may want to also grab something like Hugin (open source). Source: about 2 years ago

Not a perfect answer but If you convert your cubemaps into top/bottom pano splits you can view them using most of the vr viewer apps on the store. You can do this with hugin. Source: over 2 years ago

If you're looking for a free alternative, you can try LuminanceHDR and HDRMerge, both open source. I've never tried either of them, just found them here: https://pixls.us/software/. Source: over 1 year ago

I've tried merging exposure-bracketed photos with various HDR utilities, including directly in Darktable. To be honest, the only thing I've ever got decent results out of is HDRMerge. My preference is to do the merge from the command-line interface (I have it scripted up as part of my automated workflow) but it has a GUI as well if you prefer. Source: over 3 years ago

For HRD merge I tried https://jcelaya.github.io/hdrmerge/ a couple of times, I think it does the correct thing ; it just merges and produce a file with larger dynamic range and let the tone mapping for you. The /r/shittyHDR look comes mostly from bad tone mapping. I rarely use exposure bracketing because I can directly average shots on my Canon camera. Source: over 3 years ago

I'm not aware of any automated way to do it in the Gimp. I use HDRMerge to combine multiple shots at different exposures into a single HDR image for later processing in the Gimp and it gives me pretty good results. It can be run as a batch-job, which makes it very easy to slip into an automated workflow. Source: over 3 years ago

I've tried creating HDR images with a variety of programs, including Darktable, but the only one I've ever had good results with has been HdrMerge. Source: over 3 years ago