All,

first of all, many thanks for this great image software, I'm working with it for some years now on amateur level, however, and I really like GIMP.

Since I didn't find in the plug-in directory something I searched for (HDR) and didn't know other keywords for it, I like to ask in this list.

Are there any possibilities in GIMP or GIMP plug-ins to superpose multiple photos with different exposures into one new photo? I've seen such photos on flickr.com and was very impressed. I don't know the correct terminus for that processing, I guess it is called High Dynamic Range (HDR). I found a company hdrsoft.com which offers such a software and I've been told that some Photoshop versions support this. I found also a GIMP version by Industrial Light & Magic which is said to support this, but I couldn't figure out details.

Regardless my terrible description, someone on this list probably know what I'm looking for :-)

Thank you, Anastasios

with greetings from Bavaria in Germany.

Bruno Postle wrote:

Cinepaint has a plugin for merging multiple exposures to HDR, otherwise you can do it on the command-line with pfscalibration:

http://www.bruno.postle.net/neatstuff/stained-glass-hdr-photo/

Though working with real HDR data is a hassle, you might have more success with a simple 'contrast blending' approach:

http://www.luminous-landscape.com/tutorials/digital-blending.shtml

Bruno,
many thanks for the links you provided. Especially the contrast blending tutorial will help me to solve it with GIMP.

Anastasios